ASC function

Category: Text
Introduced: Excel 365

Summary

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

Syntax

ASC(text) The ASC function syntax has the following arguments:
• Text Required. The text or a reference to a cell that contains the text you want to change. If text does not contain any full-width letters, text is not changed.

Example

=ASC("EXCEL") equals "EXCEL"
=ASC(" ") equals " "

Microsoft Support Page

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/asc-function-0b6abf1c-c663-4004-a964-ebc00b723266

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