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

Excel formulas are a powerful way to quickly manipulate and display the data in your spreadsheets to your exact specifications. Once you've created an effective formula for your data, you may want to ...

1. Drag the Fill Handle of a single cell to copy that cell. The Fill Handle is at the bottom right of any selected cell or group of cells. 2. Drag the Fill Handle of a cell containing January, Jan, ...

Spreadsheet software is supposed to make life easier, not torture you with endless hours of data entry. Before you curse Excel and wish that you were working back in the good old days of paper ledgers ...

Q. In the past, I could enter 1/31/2019 in cell B1 and 2/28/2019 in cell C1, highlight both cells, and then drag the Fill Handle to the right to generate the headings 3/31/2019, 4/30/2019, 5/31/2019, ...