Excel data cleaning reference

Try selected public learning objectives through original work tasks.

Reference: Microsoft Support. Checked 2026-10-04.

Four selected data-cleaning skills; not a complete Excel course.

These are original lessons, synthetic datasets and assessments. Skill Workbench is independent of the source provider.

Objective coverage

Import and inspect tabular data

selected practice

Import without losing data →

Handle blanks

selected practice

Handle missing values →

Remove duplicates

selected practice

Deduplicate by a business key →

Clean text and dates

selected practice

Standardize dates and whitespace →

Public objectives summarized. No source lessons, paid exercises or media reproduced.

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