Excel's VALUE function - What does it do?

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What does the VALUE function do?

Excel's VALUE function - What does it do?

Excel's VALUE function converts a text string which represents a number to a number.

If cell A1 contains 123 (formatted as text), then

=VALUE(A1)

returns 123 (formatted as a number).

   

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