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    Dirty Data: Excel techniques to turn what you get into what you need
    Dirty Data: Excel techniques to turn what you get into what you need
    Dirty Data: Excel techniques to turn what you get into what you need
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    Dirty Data: Excel techniques to turn what you get into what you need

    By Melissa Esquibel

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    50 tips to help you turn ugly spreadsheet data into something you can use to get valuable insights into your business and processes in Microsoft Excel. Applicable to versions 2007 through 2019. There are tips for any level users from absolute beginners through advanced Excel users. Some of the problems Dirty Data offers solutions for include: duplicates, non-date date data, connecting multiple related datasets, resolving time zones, and more. The book is chock full of examples in pictures and sprinkled with humor throughout.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 11, 2019
    ISBN9781543991802
    Dirty Data: Excel techniques to turn what you get into what you need

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      Dirty Data - Melissa Esquibel

      Dirty Data Chapter head and cover Illustrations: Abigail Rudner (Rudner.com)

      Copyright © 2019 by Melissa P. Esquibel, LLC.

      ISBN: 9781543991802

      All rights reserved. Published in the United States of America by Melissa P. Esquibel, LLC. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 and 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act and except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Requests for permission and general inquiries should be made in writing to melissa@esquibel.me.

      All advice and other information contained herein are offered in good faith and are based on personal experience and anecdotal evidence. However, the author and the publisher cannot guarantee that anyone following these tips and techniques will be successful. Neither the author nor the publisher assumes any liability or responsibility to anyone with respect to any loss or damage caused, or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly, by following the information contained in this book. You should use this information as you see fit and at your own risk.

      While the author and publisher have made every reasonable attempt to provide accurate information at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assume any responsibility for errors or omissions, or for changes that occur after publication. Further, the publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for authors or third-party websites or their content.

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      All terms mentioned in this book that are known to be trademarks or service marks have been appropriately capitalized. Use of a term in this book should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark. Microsoft® is a trademark of the Microsoft group of companies and associated product names and logos are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

      Dedicated with love,

      to my awesome son and awesome sun,

      Zach Stout, Chef with a Spreadsheet

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      A Note from the Author

      Using this Book

      Chapter 1 – Scroll-free Formatting

      Tip #1 - Right-size rows/columns

      Tip #2 - Same size rows/columns

      Tip #3 - Select the data not the column title

      Tip #4 - Table Style Formatting V

      Chapter 2 - The Good List

      Tip #5 - Multi-row records V

      Tip #6 – Instead of blank columns

      Tip #7 – Instead of blank rows

      Tip #8 – Instead of merged cells V

      Chapter 3 - Dealing with Duplicates

      Tip #9 - Conditional Formatting –Duplicates

      Tip #10 - &/Concat/Concatenate a whole field

      Tip #11 - Remove Duplicates

      Tip #12 - Creating a Delete Log V

      Chapter 4 - Intelligent Strings

      Tip #13 - Text to Columns

      Tip #14 - Flash Fill

      Tip #15 - Text Functions

      Tip #16 Dealing with Variable Length Data V

      Chapter 5 – Imposter Syndrome

      Tip #17 – Do nothing

      Tip #18 – Multiply by 1

      Tip #19 - From the error indicator

      Tip #20 - As a function

      Tip #21 - Dealing with LookUps

      Tip #22 – Column Formats

      Tip #23 – The TEXT Function

      Chapter 6 - Yummy Dates and Yucky Dates

      Tip #24 - Detecting Serial Dates

      Tip #25 - Fixing Cereal Dates" V

      Tip #26 – Date Math

      Tip #27 – Getting More from your Dates

      Chapter 7 - It’s About Time

      Tip #28 - Time Math

      Tip #29 – Date AND Time Math

      Tip #30 - Military Time V

      Tip #31 - Time Zones

      Chapter 8 - Keeping it Clean

      Tip #32 - Clear Formats

      Tip #33 - Show Formulas

      Tip #34 – LEN (again)

      Tip #35 - IS Functions

      Tip #36 TRUE or FALSE

      Tip #37 - Data Validation

      Tip #38 - -Out of Range Conditional Formatting

      Tip #39 - Conditional Formatting – Bad Records V

      Chapter 9 - Repeating Success

      Tip #40 - This has been a recording – Macros

      Tip #41 – Templates: For Real! V

      Chapter 10 - LookUp Conundrums

      Tip #42 – Your Lying Eyes – Using Trim and Value

      Tip #43 – Moving Targets –Lookup Tables that Stay Put

      Tip #44 – Index/Match: The Other Lookup

      Tip #45 – The Pivot Table Test

      Tip #46 – Use the Data Model Instead

      Chapter 11 - Scorched Earth

      Tip #47 – Unhide Everything V

      Tip #48 – Clear Formats

      Tip #49 – Copy/Paste Values

      Tip #50 – Save as a CSV

      Appendix A.1 – Keyboard Shortcuts (PC)

      Appendix A.2 Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac)

      Appendix B – Function List

      A Note from the Author

      Ubuntu: I am because you are. (Origin: 19th Century South Africa)

      Sir Isaac Newton once said, If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. This is no less true of any of us who write books, give speeches and teach classes. Even those who have had groundbreaking discoveries, are able to do this because they have not only learned from

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