Chapter 7

Manipulating Data with Macros

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Copying and pasting a range and converting formulas in a range

Bullet Performing text to columns on all columns

Bullet Converting trailing minus signs and padding cells with zeros

Bullet Truncating postal codes to the left five

Bullet Appending text to the left or right of your cells

Bullet Cleaning up data including duplicates, extra cell space, and blank cells

Bullet Selectively hiding AutoFilter dropdowns

Bullet Copying filtered rows and showing filtered columns in status bar

When working with information in Excel, you often have to transform the data in some way. Transforming it generally means cleaning, standardizing, or shaping data in ways that are appropriate for your ...

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