Working with Downloaded Text Data in Excel (Text Based Course)

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.