Your summarizations, analyses, projections, reports and so on, are only as good as your data. It’s important that you use every resource available to protect the validity of the data, which means you ...

You can easily create a drop-down list in Excel to limit the values that can be entered in a column. Here's how to set one up ...

Excel's text functions, such as TRIM, UPPER, LOWER, and PROPER, can be used to clean up textual data. TRIM removes extra spaces from text entries. UPPER converts text to uppercase letters, LOWER does ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported ...

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting.