An unexpected text value The input of special characters The function argument is not the expected type Dates stored as text. One of the issues that may trigger the ...

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

Fix Excel formulas that won’t spill! Learn how to troubleshoot #VALUE errors caused by Analysis ToolPak functions and improve your workflow.

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...