Clean an imported CSV
Take a messy export from another app and fix its usual problems in order, with Remove duplicates, Split text, TRIM, VALUE and DATEVALUE.
In this lesson
- Clean in this order: remove duplicates, split columns, then fix spaces, numbers and dates in helper columns.
=TRIM(B2)for spaces,=VALUE(F2)for numbers stored as text,=DATEVALUE(E2)for dates stored as text.
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Delete repeated rows from a merged list, and choose which columns decide what counts as a duplicate.
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Delete repeated rows from a merged list, and choose which columns decide what counts as a duplicate.
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