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

How to Extract a Substring in Excel Using FIND() and MID() Functions Your email has been sent Learn how to use MID() and FIND() and then combine them to parse substrings from inconsistent data.

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