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

Find and Replace is a useful feature in the Office suite programs which allows replacing an existing text with a new text. However, it can also be used to find and replace the color of the text. You ...

While Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful spreadsheet applications, it’s also the most intimidating tool in the Microsoft Office suite. If you’ve never used Excel before or are just a bit ...

Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...

This article shows how to add Alt Text in Excel to Images, Charts, Objects & PivotTables. Alt Text stands for Alternative Text. The Alternative Text helps people with visual disabilities understand ...

Conditional formatting highlights key information in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to see at a glance. This beginner’s guide gets you started. Spreadsheets usually hold a wealth of information, but it ...

You can do a mail merge in Microsoft Word and Excel to create personalized documents for many recipients at once.

I discovered artificial intelligence tool GPT Excel in my quest to cut down on all the busywork it takes to create and update spreadsheets. Carly Quellman, aka Carly Que, is a multimedia strategist ...

You can enable macros in Excel using the Trust Center or enable a specific macro from the security warning at the top of a spreadsheet.