Excel Data Cleaning

Practical workflows for diagnosing, cleaning and validating Excel data with tested ChatGPT prompts and verification steps.

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Clean and Standardise Data in Excel

Inconsistent dates, mixed formats, extra spaces. Get a tested ChatGPT prompt to fix the whole column at once.

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How to Remove Duplicates in Excel

A tested ChatGPT prompt identifies which columns define a true duplicate, which record to keep, and gives you a COUNTIFS formula to verify before you delete anything.

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Remove Blank Rows in Excel

Remove truly empty rows safely, distinguish formula-empty strings, or create a non-destructive cleaned output.

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How to Remove Spaces in Excel

Tested ChatGPT prompts help you remove leading, trailing, extra, and hidden spaces in Excel, including cases where TRIM does not work and lookups return #N/A.

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Convert Text to Date in Excel

Tested ChatGPT prompts help you convert dates stored as text into real Excel dates, including yyyymmdd values, CSV imports, and dd/mm/yyyy vs mm/dd/yyyy locale problems.

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Fuzzy Match in Excel

Tested ChatGPT prompts help you match similar customer, company, or supplier names in Excel with Power Query, review ambiguous matches, and handle abbreviations with transformation tables.

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Merge Multiple Excel Files

Append monthly files with Power Query, preserve source filenames, handle schema changes, and reconcile row counts and control totals.

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Split Text in Excel

Choose Text to Columns or TEXTSPLIT, preserve empty fields, handle multiple delimiters, and split on the last delimiter safely.

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Convert Text to Number in Excel

Convert imported text safely with VALUE or NUMBERVALUE while preserving identifiers, missing values, and locale-specific separators.

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