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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I have used the Excel functions LEFT ... Let’s look at another example where data appears in a single text string, and we want it to be shown in multiple columns and rows. See the screenshot below. I ...

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Microsoft Project is an effective management service for budgeting, tracking and analyzing project tasks. It stores data in tables whose contents you can easily migrate into Excel workbooks. Project ...

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