Clean and Format Excel Data for Analysis: Intermediate

**This course includes downloadable course instructor and exercise files to work with and follow along.**

Welcome to Microsoft Excel Intermediate! This practical course will teach you essential techniques for cleaning and organizing your data, ensuring it’s in the correct format for analysis and reporting. Data must often be cleaned before fully utilizing Excel’s powerful tools like PivotTables and charts. Explore how to handle messy data, import data from various sources like text files and folders, and clean up issues such as blank rows, duplicates, and inconsistent text formatting.

Understanding these data-cleaning techniques ensures your datasets are structured and ready for deeper analysis. You’ll also learn to split and combine text data, adjust case and spaces, and use Excel’s advanced functions like CONCAT and Flashfill. With a focus on efficiency, this training will help you save time and ensure accuracy when working with large datasets.

Whether you’re just starting or already familiar with Excel, you will be equipped with the skills to handle data more effectively. Join today and take your Excel proficiency to the next level, making your data management tasks more streamlined and error-free.

By the end, you will learn how to:

• Clean and standardize text data using essential Excel functions.
• Split and combine text data with various built-in tools.
• Format and organize data as a table for improved structure.
• Import data from different external sources efficiently.
• Remove blank rows, cells, and duplicates to clean data.
• Utilize Flashfill and CONCAT for data manipulation and joining.

This course includes:

1. 76 minutes of video tutorials
2. 11 individual video lectures
3. Course and Exercise Files to follow along
4. Certificate of completion