Cleaning Up Your Excel Data

Explores the functions, commands, and techniques in Excel that quickly restructure data, remove unwanted characters, convert date data into the desired format, and prepare data for efficient analysis.In this course, Dennis Taylor explores the functions, commands, and techniques in Excel that restructure data, remove unwanted characters, convert date data into the desired format, and prepare data for efficient analysis. This course helps get data from a business management system file, other database software, a text file, or a poorly designed Excel worksheet into optimal shape for working with in Excel. Topics include: Moving or inserting rows and columns of data with a simple drag Using Text to Columns Harnessing the Find and Replace command to replace data at the character level Dealing with special characters and wildcards during search Converting dates with text functions Converting text data to values/numbers Checking and correcting spelling mistakes Splitting data into multiple columns via the Text to Columns feature Combining data from different columns via concatenation