Text and Data Cleaning: Learn Excel 365

Text and Data Cleaning provides practical strategies to improve accuracy, consistency, and efficiency when working with spreadsheets. You’ll discover how to clean, convert, and organize information using Excel’s built-in tools, making your data more reliable and ready for analysis.

You will explore essential features such as the spell checker and translation tools to correct errors and enhance accessibility across different languages. Learn to apply key functions like VALUE for converting text to numbers, TRIM for removing extra spaces, and SUBSTITUTE for replacing unwanted characters. You’ll also practice adjusting text formatting to uppercase, lowercase, or proper case, and extracting specific data segments with MID, LEFT, and LEN.

Beyond text formatting, you will develop skills to streamline repetitive tasks using autofill and create custom lists for faster data entry. These techniques will help you save time, reduce mistakes, and prepare information for better reporting and deeper insights.

By the end of this learning experience, you will have the confidence to handle complex text and data cleaning tasks in Excel 365, ensuring your work is precise, organized, and ready to support sound decision-making.

In this course, you’ll learn how to:

• Utilize Excel's spell checker effectively.

• Apply translation tools for multilingual documents.

• Use the VALUE function for data conversion.

• Implement the TRIM function to remove spaces.

• Execute the SUBSTITUTE function for text replacement.

• Extract specific text using Excel functions.

• Learn advanced Excel autofill techniques for data entry

• Create and use custom lists in Excel.