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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 ... we want to use to split the text string into separate columns. In this case, we will use the formula in cell K2, as shown in ...