Struggling with messy data in Excel can be a real headache, especially when you’re on a tight deadline. But what if there was a way to make this process smoother and more efficient? In this guide ...

Q. There was a December 2020 article in the JofA about cleaning and joining data using a program called Alteryx, but we don’t have access to this program. Could you explain how to do those tasks using ...

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Microsoft Excel's Clean function strips nonprintable characters from cell text. These nonprintable characters constitute the first 32 characters of the 7-bit ASCI code, which houses the 128 text ...

You can remove duplicates in Excel in a few steps; duplicates can create problems when you're dealing with data. Excel provides an easy tool that removes duplicate values for you, but it can only ...

Here's how Excel processes that request. First, the SORT function arranges the entire table by sales amount in descending ...

You can merge cells in Microsoft Excel as a quick and easy way to create titles, or to spread data neatly across columns and rows. There are several different types of merges you can perform in Excel, ...

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I have a dump of contacts from a different program, it started life as an Excel (old 2003 format xls) file. I need to massage this data to work in modern mail programs, the eventual target is GMail ...