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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. This can be hard-coded inside double quotes or a reference to a cell ...
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Excel Efficiency Hacks: The Smartest Way to Use Reptarrays

Discover the most efficient techniques to create and use Reptarrays in Excel. Learn insider tips, tricks, and productivity ...

Still Using VLOOKUP for Massive Excel Sheets? Power Pivot Can Make Your Reports Fly

Create Excel pivot tables from multiple tables with the Data Model. Fewer formulas, smaller files, faster analysis. Clean ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
Nature

What is the expectation maximization algorithm?

Probabilistic models, such as hidden Markov models or Bayesian networks, are commonly used to model biological data. Much of their popularity can be attributed to the existence of efficient and robust ...