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Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

Sometimes it's not possible to separate data yourself before putting it into an Excel spreadsheet. Often, the information from old data files gets lumped into a single cell. The same can happen if you ...

Ideally, any Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that contains names and addresses breaks up each category of information into separate columns for each significant part. That means, for example, that an ...