Working with Downloaded Text Data in Excel
SKU: 02-077-01-CPE
Credit Hours: 2
Level: Basic
CPE Category: Computer Software and Applications-Non Technical
Requires Prerequisites or Advanced Preparation: No
Delivery Method: PDF
Instructor: Joseph P. Helstrom, CPA
Course Description:
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.
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- 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