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Computing with Excel and VBA
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Computing with Excel and VBA

by S.I. Krishan
August 2008
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
298 pages
10h 49m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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6
Working with Text,
Dates, and Times
O
ur focus so far has been on processing numerical data. We
have looked at functions whose arguments are numbers
or logical values. In many applications, we need to work
with arguments or data that consist of strings of characters, text
paragraphs, or special sequences of numbers representing dates
and times. In this chapter we will look at Excel functions that deal
with such arguments, and will illustrate the use of such functions
through examples.
Text in Excel
You may recall that Excel recognizes three types of entries in cells: numbers includ-
ing dates and times, formulas, and text. Through ...
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