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

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

Learn practical HYPERLINK tips, from dynamic sheet links and navigation buttons to XLOOKUP row jumps and tidy anchor text for client reports.

Create Excel pivot tables from multiple tables with the Data Model. Fewer formulas, smaller files, faster analysis. Clean ...

you can also read the August 2023 Tech Q&A article “Join Text in Excel”, which explains the function TEXTJOIN, and the previous item in this month’s Tech Q&A “Using TEXTSPLIT to Dissect Excel Text ...

A. TEXTSPLIT is a very useful function for breaking down text cells that contain different lengths of text and delimiters. It can be used in several ways, and we’ll review some examples of how to use ...

This guide describes how to link checkboxes to multiple cells in Excel in Windows 11/10 manually, or automate the process ...

This guide describes how to move highlighted cells in Excel in Windows 11/10 using drag and drop, cut and paste, and other ...

Anthropic has introduced Claude for Excel, allowing users to work with the AI assistant directly within Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft’s new Copilot function in Excel lets users generate, analyze and explain data directly from cell formulas, marking a major step toward full AI integration within spreadsheets.

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