{"id":896,"date":"2019-04-22T15:41:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/?p=896"},"modified":"2019-04-22T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:41:07","slug":"the-value-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/the-value-function\/","title":{"rendered":"The VALUE Function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It converts a text that represents a number to that number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The syntax of the function is the following: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>VALUE<\/strong><em>(<span><b>text<\/b><\/span><\/em>) <\/p><cite><font color=\"#191e23\"><span><b>text<\/b><\/span><\/font>: The text you want to convert to a number.<br><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The text can be in any of the constant number, date, or time formats recognized by Excel. If it is not then the function returns the #VALUE! error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The function is provided for compatibility with other spreadsheet software. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click on the button to practice using this function, with the help of our <strong>Online Assessment Tool<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"button-practice-container\" ><a class=\"button button-primary button-practice\" style=\"height:auto\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-content\/plugins\/unlimited-integration\/run.php?id=ZjBIYnBkM00veW15M08rbHFMVkxWTXM1MzQ2ckJIdTVZbFZGZEtvdkRzU0NOcnJSN2dUNkhTUHJaeEFBdUY0dA==&b=MmdTTS8yUnRCMVdvaDJ3dG1QamIzUlRDYUR6c1k5WW9MdE9XdlpGSUhQeWgzNW5MVVVjTWh0cmtQVTZKOHljZVArYjlwMmhEZFlFOFJPQytvQTh0K2RBbWRQOEtPOFJWWXdCWUk1SVdMcDA9\">Practice<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Here is an example of how to use the VALUE function:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the cells B1:B6 set the values of the cell range A1:A6.<br> If their values cannot be represented by a number then set the value in the corresponding cell of the B column to 0.<br> You can use the conditional function IFERROR and the VALUE function.<br> Then <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Use the ISERROR function for error solving (Excel 2016)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IfeTue_E5UU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It converts a text that represents a number to that number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[94,114],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-functions","tag-text-functions","tag-value"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}