10 super neat ways to clean data in Excel spreadsheets

Data forms the backbone of any analysis that you do using Excel. And there are thousands of things that can go wrong with the data – be it the structure, extra spaces, wrong placement, different formats, and so on...

In this blog post, I will show you 10 simple ways to clean data in Excel:

• Getting rid of extra spaces.
• Select and treat all blank cells.
• Converts numbers stored as text into numbers.
• Remove duplicates.
• Highlight errors.
• Change text to lower/upper/proper case.
• Use Text to Columns to parse data in Excel.
• Spell check.
• Deleting all formatting.
• Use Find and Replace to clean data in Excel.