Data Cleaning in Excel - 10 Tricks (Beginner to PRO)

Dirty data on your mind?
Just spray the amazing "data cleaner" on it.
In this video, learn how you can use 5 Excel features to clean data with 10 examples.
You will learn about:
1) Flash Fill
2) Text to Columns
3) Remove Duplicates
4) Formulas
5) Power Query
Video Topics ⏱👇
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0:00 - Data Clean-up - the challenge
1:17 - Extracting the first name (Flash Fill)
2:10 - Get the city from location (Flash Fill)
3:12 - Get the city from location (Text to Columns)
4:20 - Splitting cost centre & ID number (Text to Columns)
5:35 - Duplicate Valvalues (Remove Duplicates)
6:33 - But there is a problem!!!
7:16 - Remove extra spaces from name (Formulas)
8:01 - Full time or Part time (Formulas)
8:49 - Power Query!!!
10:04 - Splitting Cost Centre & ID with Power Query
10:57 - Fixing inconsistent dates with Power Query
11:40 - Adding a Full / Part column with Power Query
12:30 - Bonus Example - Fixing or Removing incomplete data
13:50 - Loading Cleaned up data to Excel & Data Updates (Refresh)
Download the sample file 🟩
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May your data be clean and your days be serene 😀

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Hi Anand... I have been making Excel + data content for over 12 years. There is all sorts of content on the channel and my website. I am not sure what you mean by "let us down". But my duty is to only make content that I enjoy creating. It is your responsibility to take it or leave it.

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This is very helpful. Those data cleaning techniques are extremely useful for our daily excel work.

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Glad to hear that OT :)

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Glad to hear that Pro.. :)

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New learning again..... Thanks..

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[@chandoo_]

Welcome!!

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[@chandoo_]

Thanks Giovanni...

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Chandoo your videos are wonderful! Especially the ones dealing with Power Query! You convinced me to really try to learn it, so I started using it recently and after a decade of working with Excel I feel like a fool for not doing so sooner! I deal with repeated, periodic reports and often the original source is so messy. I really appreciate that I can use PQ, set it up once, and NEVER have to manually clean up the same report for the thousandth time (literally)! Just the other day I took a daily file that is over 500MBs (don't ask!) and cut it down to under 50, and I'm not even done yet! Spectacular tool!

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Wow.. .what a transformation (excuse the pun). Power Query is one of the first things I teach in my classes now a days. That alone can save a lot of downstream headaches.

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You are so welcome!

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This was another great video, thanks Chandoo!

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Glad you enjoyed it Chris. PS: I also want to thank you for watching and commenting on most videos 😍

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Java programing.

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Hi Shriram ji. First of all, it is inspiring to see your curiosity. I suggest learning either Python or VBA (if you use Excel alot). They are simple languages and you will certainly enjoy the challenge.

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@@chandoo_ Sir I believe I should learn Excel first, then think of other languages as suggested by you. Thanks a lot.

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It's my pleasure Latha. More power to you :)

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Wow, this video is really helpfull to do cleaning process thank you so much 😊and I'm moving forward to remaining vedios....

[@chandoo_]

You’re welcome 😊

[@alexanderkozlov1704]

Hi Chandoo, thanks for the great video as always. But it seems that flash fill doesn't work on Mac. Is there a way to address it? Thanks

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Thank you so much Chando.

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thanks...once again maestro

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Woah!! Thank you for this amazing video Chandoo. Never thought we can do so much in power query 🤩

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All of that ... and MORE

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PQ is the bees knees.

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AMEN to that brother...

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Love It!

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Again, well done :)

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excellent, thankyou!

[@chandoo_]

You are welcome Tejas.

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[@chandoo_]

You are welcome Bharat 😊

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[@chandoo_]

Thanks Arun 😀

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Keeping your customer database clean is a lot like maintaining your car: if you don't do it regularly or with the right tools, it's just going to get worse. Luckily, there are some easy things you can do that will help you keep your customer data clean and organized. Aside from what Chandoo shared, we also suggest data appending for those who are not really techy. It serves as data enrichment and data cleansing tool. 🙏

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Facts 🙂👏

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Thanks!

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Thank you

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Thank you...

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Thanks and welcome

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Awesome , great video

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You are welcome Satyajit...

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Power Query is a must have/know tool.

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Thanks a lot!

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Thank you so much 😀

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finished watching nd practicing

[@ahamedashik65]

Hi Chandoo, It was a great video as usual, thanks for teaching us in a simpler method where everyone can understand. I also found a mistake while cleaning the data by copy pasting the new values, so it shows the column gender where we changed null value to other but it shows zero in your video. Can you please look into the video again and explain why it is showing zero again instead of other. Thank you 😊

[@zp5808]

Hi, I guess you are talking about the part around 14:15. From the tab named "Table1" he switched back to the half clean data set, specifically the tab named "PQ Data" which was not affected by Power Query. It was left there unmodified, Power Query ran some processes and then created a new tab with the clean data. He just went back in the video to look at and therefore to show us the original, dirty data on PQ Data tab, that's why we still see NULLs there.

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Great 👍 thanks

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You are welcome Rami...

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Glad to hear that

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The best.

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GOOOOOD stuff!

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Wow Oz... Thank you 😎

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Who inspired you with that cleaner thing in the begining? Thought it was pretty novel.. good content as usual. was aware of most of it. Flash fill at times has been very handy & saved me from writing complex formulas.

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I was thinking about various hooks for this video and suddenly I had a splash of wisdom (excuse the pun).

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You are welcome Gareema.

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Hi thks u. i thing i got the point with how fast flash fill can help us filling the table but i did not got how iit usefull for the cleaning purpose. Help Thks

[@khadrianadrima2165]

Thanks Chandoo. I try step by step, following your instruction. But when i try on power Querry, after split columns of ID. The number ID is not the same especially when the number begin with zero. The zero number is dissapear. Could you explain why? or there is a settings for those columns should be done first before split the columns.

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Thanks

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[@chandoo_]

You are welcome JK