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 formulas to their …

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 range …

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.

Copy the example data in the following table, and paste it in cell A1 of a new Excel worksheet. For formulas to show results, select them, press F2, and then press Enter.

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.

Copy the example data in the following table, and paste it in cell A1 of a new Excel worksheet. For formulas to show results, select them, press F2, and then press Enter.

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 paste to the …

To convert a text date in a cell to a serial number, use the DATEVALUE function. Then copy the formula, select the cells that contain the text dates, and use Paste Special to apply a date format to them.

You do not generally need to use the VALUE function in a formula because Excel automatically converts text to numbers as necessary. This function is provided for compatibility with other spreadsheet …