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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.

Unlock Excel’s Copilot AI Super Powers : 2025 Beginners Guide

Learn Excel basics and explore AI-powered tools to simplify data tasks. Perfect for beginners looking to boost productivity ...
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Old Excel functions you should stop using (and what to replace them with)

VLOOKUP has been the go-to function for looking up data in Excel for years, but it comes with limitations. You can only search in the leftmost column and return values to the right. If your lookup ...
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Rainn Wilson's New Action Movie Is More Than Just Your Average Buddy-Comedy — Review

Rainn Wilson will always be most remembered for Dwight Schrute from The Office. There's no way around it, and that's not a bad thing either, because he created one of the greatest sitcom characters of ...
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Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'

Software Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October—and it seems like there's no way ...
ZDNet

Excel's new Copilot function turns your prompts into formulas - how to try it

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 ...
GeekWire

Excel + AI: Microsoft brings new ‘COPILOT’ function directly into spreadsheet cells

Microsoft Excel’s new COPILOT function lets users generate, summarize, and analyze data directly in spreadsheet cells using plain-language prompts. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft is building generative ...
Windows Report

Microsoft Brings AI to Excel with New COPILOT Function

Microsoft has just introduced the Copilot function in Excel for Windows and Mac. With the new function, Excel now becomes a space for analyzing text, generating ideas, and simplifying repetitive tasks ...
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Avoid These Common Mistakes with MS Excel’s Percent Of Function

Have you ever trusted a tool to simplify your work, only to discover it might be quietly leading you astray? That’s exactly the risk you run with Excel’s “Percent Of” function. On the surface, it ...
Time

Function Health

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Function Health CEO Jonathan Swerdlin Many people have low-level risk factors, such as early signs of heart disease, smoldering inside their body. But ...
TechCrunch

Leak reveals Grok might soon edit your spreadsheets

Leaked code suggests xAI is developing an advanced file editor for Grok with spreadsheet support, signaling the company’s push to compete with OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft by embedding AI copilots ...