People may add single quotation marks or apostrophes (‘) to Excel cells for various reasons. One common reason is to treat the value in the cell as text instead of a number or a date. But after adding the single quotation marks (‘), it can be harder to work with the data. Thankfully, there are…
The removal of specific characters from a cell or a group of cells is a common task in Excel. When working with data that contains unnecessary prefixes or codes, it might be very helpful to remove the first two characters. Fortunately, Microsoft Excel offers a variety of ways to get rid of the first two…
Sometimes it is not uncommon to experience situations where numeric characters need to be removed from cells that have both text and numerical strings. You may see various situations where numerical values are present in various arrangements in the data set, and you would need to clean them up. In this article, I am going…
Apparently, you may not see the blank spaces with the bare eye. But blank characters, such as spaces, tabs, or line breaks, can manipulate the data. Blank spaces in a dataset can cause inconsistencies and errors, especially if you’re performing calculations or analysis. For this reason, removing the blank characters is sometimes necessary. Excel offers…
Sometimes the data that we work with may contain unwanted characters that can make it difficult to read, sort, or analyze. Whether it is extra spaces, dashes, commas, or any other character, it can be frustrating to deal with. Luckily, Excel offers a variety of ways to remove specific characters from a cell or a…
An XML map connects an Excel file with an XML schema. It is an essential requirement to export an Excel file as an XML file. The XML map in Excel allows you to specify which data from the XML file you want to import into your worksheet. You can also specify how the data should…
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One of the most obvious tasks as part of the data cleaning process is to remove duplicates. Well, there are different types of cases that require different types of approaches for removing duplicates. Considering all the different scenarios, I’ve come up with all possible solutions to remove duplicates in Excel. Introduction to the Dataset I’m…
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While working on an Excel spreadsheet, you’ll often find texts with non-printable characters. If you download Excel files from the internet, this tends to happen very often. The problem with non-printable characters is often you won’t see them in the cell even if they are present. And with those being present, you can’t perform any…
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Finding, Highlighting, and Removing duplicates are an integral part of data cleansing in Excel. With that being said this tutorial with guide you to find, highlight & remove duplicates in Excel. Find Duplicates in Excel In the column, Ice Cream Flavors, I’ve got a list of different ice cream flavor names. I’ve created a blank…
When you are working in Excel, sometimes data have dashes or hyphens(-). Very often, you need to remove those dashes to process data. There are several ways by which you can remove dashes or hyphens(-) from an Excel worksheet. Here, I’m going to show you more than 3 easy methods to remove dashes in Excel….
