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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

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

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
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Learning REDUCE in Excel completely changed how I use spreadsheets

REDUCE allows you to iterate through your data, building your result step-by-step, in the same way a loop operates in a ...

This Simple Excel Trick Makes Dynamic Filters Update Themselves in Seconds

Learn how DROP, REDUCE, LAMBDA, and STACK make Excel arrays update automatically, split text, and stack filtered results ...

8 Excel Features That Quickly Improve Your Work : Flash Fill, Paste Special & the Magic F4 Key

Learn Paste Special math, Flash Fill patterns, Go To Special filters, and the F4 shortcut to clean data fast and share Excel ...
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Data Cleaning Tools and Techniques for Non-Coders

Understanding, organizing, and validating data directly affects the accuracy of stories. New tools make cleaning accessible ...
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Banish Spreadsheet Headaches: How I Use ChatGPT as My Excel and Google Sheets Wingman

Tools like Excel and Google Sheets are ubiquitous these days, and learning how to use them more effectively will quickly ...

EOG Resources, Inc. (EOG) Q3 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Q3 2025 Earnings Call November 7, 2025 10:00 AM ESTCompany ParticipantsPearce Hammond - Vice President of Investor ...