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

You can freeze a row in Excel through the "Freeze Panes" menu. This lets you scroll through a spreadsheet without that frozen data leaving the screen.

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A "former contractor" to the NSW Reconstruction Authority uploaded an Excel spreadsheet with "over 12,000 rows of information" to ChatGPT, exposing "up to 3000" people’s data. The victims of the ...

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Despite millions spent on financial software, many finance teams still rely on Excel to close their books and reconcile numbers while preparing them for audit. Two former Microsoft executives view it ...

Apple's Numbers spreadsheet for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, is not as powerful as Microsoft Excel, but most users will be hard-pressed to find its limitations — and will immediately see how much easier ...

A new COPILOT function in Excel lets you use AI in a formula. The new skill is now available to Microsoft 365 insiders. Reduces some of the complexity involved in creating formulas. Get more in-depth ...

sometimes during my testing flow I have to test some bigger data structures like multi indexed arrays or deeply nested objects (or mixed). Once I test such case using native Text Explorer (test ...

Q. How do the TRIMRANGE function and trim references in Excel work? A. Excel’s TRIMRANGE function and trim references help users quickly tidy up datasets. This makes for a cleaner, easier-to-follow, ...

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, overwhelmed by the chaos of mixed data—names, IDs, codes—all crammed into single cells? It’s a common frustration for anyone managing large datasets in ...