Timed test: cleaning data
Clean a messy sign-up export against a 10-minute clock, with Remove duplicates, TRIM, PROPER, splitting a column and fixing numbers stored as text.
In this lesson
- Extra spaces:
=TRIM(D2). Capitals:=PROPER(E2)(also UPPER, LOWER). - Numbers stored as text:
=VALUE(F2)in a helper column, then add up the helper column. - Clean in this order: duplicates first, then formulas.
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Why your formula broke when you copied it
Lock a cell with $ so a formula keeps working when you copy it down.
Beginner · 7 min · Free, with no sign-up
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