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Changes full-width (double-byte) English letters or katakana within a character string to half-width (single-byte) characters.

TextText Processing

What it does

Converts full-width (double-byte) characters to half-width (single-byte) characters.

Syntax

ASC(text)

Arguments

  • text(text)The text containing full-width characters.

Examples

Convert full-width

Convert full-width 'Excel' to 'Excel'.

FORMULA
=ASC("Excel")
RESULT
Excel
SAMPLE DATA
A
1Full-width
2Excel