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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.

Struggling with Excel Formula Errors? This Guide Has the Answers

Fix Excel formulas that won’t spill! Learn how to troubleshoot #VALUE errors caused by Analysis ToolPak functions and improve your workflow.
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work ... where I want the SKU numbers without color to appear. I used the TEXTBEFORE function to capture everything before that last dash. The ...
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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

I have used the Excel functions LEFT ... Is there an easy way to dissect these types of text strings? A. TEXTSPLIT is a very useful function for breaking down text cells that contain different lengths ...
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3 New Microsoft Excel Features to Try in November 2025

All details in this article are correct as of October 29, 2025. Accessibility to some of the latest Excel features depends on ...
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Stats: How are the Texas Longhorns performing in the 2025 season?

This story is part of the KXAN Data Hub, where numbers help tell the whole story. We’ve created several data-driven stories and databases on topics including weather and climate, politics, education, ...