Replacing a formula with its result can be helpful if there are many or complex formulas in the workbook and you want to improve performance by creating static data. You can convert …

If you want to replace only part of a formula, you can replace only the part that you don't want to recalculate. You can convert formulas to their values on a cell-by-cell basis or convert a whole …

Converts a number from one measurement system to another. For example, CONVERT can translate a table of distances in miles to a table of distances in kilometers.

In one of the cells of the new column, type =VALUE () and inside the parentheses, type a cell reference that contains text stored as numbers. In this example it's cell E23.

The TIMEVALUE function returns the decimal number of the time represented by a text string. The decimal number is a value ranging from 0 (zero) to 0.99988426, representing the times …

This is because the DOLLAR function returns the number provided as text. Numbers stored as text are a common cause of spreadsheet errors, because many functions ignore them, such …

Copy the example data in the following table and paste it in cell A1 of a new Excel worksheet. If you need to, you can adjust the column widths to see all the data.

Mar 14, 2012 · Date and time to text The TEXT function in Excel converts a date or time to text in a specified format. The syntax is: =TEXT (value, format_text) Examples: Format today's date: …

You can reference the top cell with the values and use =TEXT (value,"00000"), where the number of zeros in the formula represents the total number of characters you want, then copy and …

If the Reference argument is to an entire row or column, or to a range or defined name containing more than one cell, FORMULATEXT returns the value in the upper leftmost cell of the row, …