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Excel's Custom Data Validation: A Trick You Didn't Know You Needed

If you've used data validation in Excel before, you probably selected the relevant cells, clicked "Data Validation" in the Data tab on the ribbon, and created the rule in the Data Validation dialog ...
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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells ... In this case, we will use the formula in cell K2, as shown in the screenshot at the top of the next page. The formula ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of functions like LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and FIND ... but if I stop the formula ...
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How to Use the VALUE Function in Microsoft Excel

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