This is an introductory course covering the basics of Excel tools and techniques dealing with downloaded data in a text format. It covers converting numbers formatted as text to numbers usable by Excel functions, concatenation, text to Columns and specific Excel text functions to manipulate and analyze data.
This course provides step by step instruction. It does provide an exercise file although most examples are simple and easy to type in on your own. In some cases, an answer sheet is also provided in the file.
Images of Excel menus, ribbons and dialog boxes use Microsoft Excel 365 so yours may look slightly different depending upon your version of Excel. In some cases, a few functions may not be available in earlier Excel versions and are so noted. Excel Version: Excel 365/ Excel 2019
Course Publication Date:
December 17, 2024
This course is available with
NO ADDITIONAL FEE if you have an active
self study membership or
all access membership or can be purchased for
$10.00!
| Author: | Mill Creek Publishing |
| Course No: | COMP-TXTDATA-2754 |
| Recommended CPE: | 1.00 |
| Delivery Method: | QAS Self Study |
| Level of Knowledge: | Overview |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Advanced Preparation: | None |
| Recommended Field of Study: | Computer Software and Applications
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Learning Objectives
- Recognize the methods used to convert numbers formatted as text to numeric values and dates formatted as text to date values recognized by Excel.
- Define the LEFT(), RIGHT() and MID() functions in Excel.
- Recognize different concatenation functions and how to utilize them.
- Recognize the uses of Text to Columns.
- Identify how to evaluate text using the LEN function.
- Recognize functions available to clean text.