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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 TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells ... It can be used in several ways, and we’ll review some examples of how to use it. If you would like to follow along with the ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

If you would like to follow along in using these functions, you can download this Excel workbook and view the video at ... from the end of the text string and go backward, from right to left, ...