ASC function

The ASC function is one of the text and data functions. Is used to change full-width (double-byte) characters to half-width (single-byte) characters for languages that use the double-byte character set (DBCS) like Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc.

Syntax

ASC(text)

The ASC function has the following argument:

Argument	Description
text	The text or a reference to a cell containing the text you want to change. If the text does not contain full-width characters it remains unchanged.

Notes

How to apply the ASC function.

Examples

The figure below displays the result returned by the ASC function.