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Excel's Custom Data Validation: A Trick You Didn't Know You Needed

If you've used data validation in Excel before, you probably selected the relevant cells, clicked "Data Validation" in the Data tab on the ribbon, and created the rule in the Data Validation dialog ...
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How to Use the VALUE Function in Microsoft Excel

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

MID, and FIND, leading to some confusing formulas. Fortunately, Excel has created TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER to make these tasks ...
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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID ... string into separate columns. In this case, we will use the formula in cell ...