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

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If you have used multiple functions in a spreadsheet and now you want to remove all of them but keep the values, here is how you can do that. There are mainly two ways to remove the formula in Excel ...

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