August 2025
Intermediate
27m
English
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese
Overview
Ranges and Data Cleanup teaches you essential Excel skills to manage your data efficiently and accurately. You will gain techniques for selecting, modifying, and organizing data ranges, enabling you to work faster and more precisely.
You will start by learning to select contiguous and non-contiguous ranges using clicks, drags, and helpful shortcuts. You’ll practice inserting and deleting rows or columns and adjusting widths and heights to create a clear, readable spreadsheet. You will also use Excel’s Remove Duplicates feature to eliminate redundant entries, keeping your data accurate and easy to work with.
Learning continues with advanced filtering, applying multiple conditions to find what you need. You will also explore outlining tools to collapse or expand sections of large datasets, making them easier to navigate. In addition, you will learn how to work with data consolidation to combine information from multiple sources into a single, organized view, for summarizing reports or combining datasets from different teams.
By the end, you will be able to select and manage data, clean up large spreadsheets confidently, and present information in a clear, professional format. These skills will help you save time, improve accuracy, and make better decisions based on well-organized data. Whether for work, school, or personal projects, you’ll be able to manage Excel data tasks more effectively and with greater confidence.
In this course, you’ll learn how to:
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