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

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 ...

Microsoft has added an OCR function (Optical Character Recognition) to the Windows Photos app, which basically means it can now recognize text in an image and instantly extract it for you. To use this ...

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 ...

In this post, we will show you how to capitalize the first letter of a text string in Microsoft Excel. When exporting data to Excel, text strings are often not properly formatted. They may appear in ...

Extract text from images on Android using 7 methods: Google Lens (real-time or from your gallery), Keep Notes (grab image text), Microsoft Lens (OCR extraction), Google Photos’ copy text, Samsung’s ...

The National Archives is brimming with historical documents written in cursive, including some that date back more than 200 years. But these texts can be difficult to read and understand—particularly ...

Microsoft Excel may be a productivity app that emphasizes numbers, but it has useful tools for text as well. For instance, that handy spreadsheet app will let you wrap text. And getting it done is a ...