Put numbers and dates inside text with TEXT
Write sentences that include amounts, dates and percentages formatted the way you want, with & and TEXT.
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- & joins what a cell holds, not how it looks.
=TEXT(value, "format")turns a number or date into text that looks the way you choose.- Numbers: "$#,##0.00" gives $1,250.00, "#,##0" gives 1,250, "0%" gives 15%, "0.0%" gives 15.0%.
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Delete repeated rows from a merged list, and choose which columns decide what counts as a duplicate.
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