Learn how Excel’s Power Query can simplify data cleaning, automate tasks, and transform your workflow. Save time and reduce ...

The CLEAN function removes all non-printable characters from your text, leaving behind a more predictable and ...

Once your data is clean, the next step is to shape it into a format that aligns with your analysis goals. Power Query offers a wide range of transformation tools that are both powerful and user ...

More specifically, it can be used to clean up data already in Excel, import and organize data from lots of different places, or consolidate various files before loading the data to a specific ...

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Clean Data works best with data formatted as an Excel table, up to 100 columns and 50,000 rows. To create an Excel table, users can click anywhere in the data and then select Home > Tables ...

Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported or foreign data in Microsoft Excel, chances are you have to clean the data a bit before you can use it. You might have to remove spaces ...