Microsoft Excel: Flash Fill & Text to Columns

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About Course

Clean up messy imported data in minutes. Learn how to split full names, addresses and codes into separate columns with Text to Columns and TEXTSPLIT, and how Flash Fill recognises a pattern from your example and fills the rest of the column for you.

Tutwoo is an independent learning provider and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft. Menu names and features can vary between versions and platforms and change with updates. This course is general skills training and is not an accredited qualification.

What Will You Learn?

  • Split one column into several with the Text to Columns wizard Use Flash Fill (Ctrl+E) to extract, combine or reformat text by example Choose between Flash Fill, Text to Columns and formulas such as TEXTSPLIT Avoid overwriting data and losing leading zeros when splitting

Course Content

Course Lessons

  • Why data needs splitting and cleaning
  • Text to Columns step by step
  • Flash Fill: fill by example
  • Formulas that split text

Sources & Further Reading
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