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How to use Excel's Power Query to tidy up messy spreadsheet data

New columns are always added to the right edge of the dataset. Simply click and drag a column by its header to move it. Also, ...
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Excel’s New Clean Data Button Will Save You Hours : But There’s a Catch

Have you ever spent hours wrestling with messy spreadsheets, only to end up questioning your sanity over rogue spaces or mismatched text entries? If so, you’re not alone. Data cleaning is one of the ...
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How to Clean Data with Power Query in Excel 365

Data cleaning is a crucial step in the data analysis process. Inaccurate, incomplete, or inconsistent data can lead to flawed insights and poor decision-making. Fortunately, Excel 365’s Power Query ...
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Quickly clean data with Excel’s TRIMRANGE and trim references

Q. How do the TRIMRANGE function and trim references in Excel work? A. Excel’s TRIMRANGE function and trim references help users quickly tidy up datasets. This makes for a cleaner, easier-to-follow, ...
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Data Hygiene 101: A Step-by-Step Data Cleaning Process

It's time for spring cleaning, including your enterprise data stores, says data expert Joey D'Antoni, who offers front-line data-hygiene advice straight from the IT trenches. "Data can be one of our ...
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I stopped worrying about spreadsheet audits when I discovered this hidden Excel wizard

Hard-coded numbers (also known as constants) being mistaken for formulas is a serious audit risk because they can lead to ...