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

A "former contractor" to the NSW Reconstruction Authority uploaded an Excel spreadsheet with "over 12,000 rows of information" to ChatGPT, exposing "up to 3000" people’s data. The victims of the ...

Apple's Numbers spreadsheet for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, is not as powerful as Microsoft Excel, but most users will be hard-pressed to find its limitations — and will immediately see how much easier ...

A new COPILOT function in Excel lets you use AI in a formula. The new skill is now available to Microsoft 365 insiders. Reduces some of the complexity involved in creating formulas. Get more in-depth ...

There's a new AI agent on the block for people who spend their waking hours inside spreadsheets. Navigate to Shortcut AI's website, and you'll find a page that looks almost exactly like an empty ...

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, overwhelmed by the chaos of mixed data—names, IDs, codes—all crammed into single cells? It’s a common frustration for anyone managing large datasets in ...

Q. Traditional PivotTables have always intimidated me. I see there is a new Excel function called PIVOTBY. What is the difference between it and the traditional PivotTable? With the PIVOTBY function, ...

Ben Jones is co-founder and CEO of Data Literacy, and the author of nine books on data and AI, including AI Literacy Fundamentals. In a world increasingly focused on data and AI, the role of the data ...

Leveraging AI to help analyze and visualize data gathered from a variety of data sets enables data-driven insights and fast analysis without the high costs of talent and technology. In today's ...

Slicers provide an intuitive, user-friendly interface for filtering data in a spreadsheet. Here’s how to create slicers, format them, and use them to filter data in Excel. Spreadsheets’ greatest ...

Ever found yourself overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data you need to track in Excel? Tracking data across multiple Excel worksheets can be a daunting task, often leading to missed updates and ...