Excel Arabic Function

ARABIC takes just one argument, roman_text, which should be a Roman number provided as a text string. For example, the formula below converts “VII” to the number 7:

Other examples

The ROMAN function performs the opposite conversion:

Roman numbers

The table below lists available Roman numbers with their equivalent Arabic number value.

Notes

The maximum length of roman_text is 255 characters. The ARABIC function performs the opposite conversion as the ROMAN function. If roman_text is not recognized as a Roman number, ARABIC returns #VALUE! ARABIC can process Roman numbers in upper or lower case.

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