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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

Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users ... I used the TEXTBEFORE function to capture everything before that last dash. The argument for text is the list of SKU numbers, which is A2:A14 ...
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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 generate random text using the RANDARRAY() function in Excel

How to generate random text using the RANDARRAY() function in Excel Your email has been sent Image: PixieMe/Shutterstock Must-read Windows coverage CrowdStrike Outage Disrupts Microsoft Systems ...

Excel’s New Clean Data Button Will Save You Hours : But There’s a Catch

Is Excel's Clean Data button the ultimate time-saver for messy spreadsheets? Find out how it works, its quirks, and how it compares to Power Query ...
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Combining formulas and text in the same cell in Excel

Q. Is there a way to include both a formula and text in the same cell? A. You can include both a formula and text in the same cell in Excel. You can do this in many ways, depending on what you are ...