Text and Data Cleaning: Learn Excel 365

Text and Data Cleaning: Learn Excel 365

Text and Data Cleaning equips you with the skills to turn raw, messy spreadsheets into accurate, well-structured, and analysis-ready data. This Excel-focused learning experience shows you how to eliminate errors, maintain consistency, and prepare information for faster and more reliable decision-making. You’ll gain practical, repeatable methods to tackle common real-world data problems confidently.

You’ll start by navigating Excel’s interface efficiently and locating essential tools such as spell check and translation to improve accuracy and accessibility. You’ll then learn how to adjust text to uppercase, lowercase, or proper case, and apply text functions such as MID, LEFT, and LEN to extract exactly the data you need.

You’ll work with powerful cleaning tools, including VALUE to convert numbers stored as text, TRIM to remove unnecessary spaces, and SUBSTITUTE to replace unwanted characters or words, even in large datasets. To save time, you’ll explore advanced Autofill techniques for generating sequences, populating dates, and creating custom lists that simplify repetitive tasks.

By the end of this course, you’ll know how to clean and organize data from multiple sources, preparing it for accurate analysis and insightful reporting. These techniques will improve the quality of your spreadsheets and enhance your productivity. With Excel’s built-in tools and newly sharpened skills, you can confidently manage data cleaning tasks and deliver precise, dependable results.

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Correct typos and spelling errors using Excel’s built-in spell checker.
• Translate text between different languages with Excel’s translator tool.
• Remove unwanted spaces from data using the TRIM function.
• Replace specific words or characters in cells with the SUBSTITUTE function.
• Apply SUBSTITUTE with instance number arguments for targeted text changes.
• Copy cell data and formatting quickly using advanced Autofill features.
• Create custom Autofill lists to speed up repetitive data entry tasks.
• Change text formatting to uppercase, lowercase, or proper case instantly.
• Extract exact text portions using MID, LEFT, and LEN functions.
• Organize and prepare raw data for analysis with structured formatting.

Course Format

• This is a video-led course. You can preview some videos below.
• This course includes instructor files.
• This course is aimed at PC Excel users.

Course Certificate Included

This course includes an optional online quiz that will generate a course certificate upon completion.

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