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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

The TEXTBEFORE function pulls what comes before a delimiter. The syntax for the TEXTBEFORE function is = TEXTBEFORE(text, delimiter, [instance_num], [match_mode], [match_end], [if_not_found]). The ...