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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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Use Excel Like a Pro : Fill Blank Cells in Seconds with This Genius Hack

Have you ever found yourself staring at a sea of blank cells in Excel, wondering how to fill them without hours of manual effort? For years, this has been a frustrating bottleneck for professionals ...
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How to Insert an In-Cell Picture in Microsoft Excel

Adding pictures to a Microsoft Excel worksheet can improve visualization, understanding, and overall presentation. However, floating images are notorious for causing layout issues when rows, columns, ...
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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ... The text argument references the text or cell where you’re searching. The delimiter is the marker that separates ...