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

Q. I usually like Excel PivotTables, but because they don’t allow me to do certain things, such as delete cells or insert new columns or rows, I’m wondering if there is a reasonable alternative? A.

I have a simple sub procedure in Excel (XP) that returns the total number of characters (Len()) in the selected cell block. Took me a long time to finally figure it out. <BR><BR>Now I want to convert ...