Microsoft Excel Tutorial: Cleaning Fixed Width Files in Power Query.
📊 Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast, Episode 2359 - Importing Fixed Width Text Files 🚀
In this episode, Bill Jelen dives into the intricacies of importing fixed-width text files into Excel. The data is a bit messy, with blank rows and irregularities, making it a perfect candidate for the power of Get and Transform tools.
🔍 Key Steps:
Identifying Column Starting Points: Bill shows you how to determine where each column starts using Notepad++ and adjust for the zero-based nature of Get and Transform tools.
Get and Transform Data: Utilize the power of Power Query to import the text file and handle data detection challenges.
Cleaning and Transforming: Learn how to clean up junk rows, split columns, and efficiently manage your data using Power Query.
Filtering: Bill demonstrates effective filtering techniques, getting rid of irrelevant data and blank rows, ensuring a streamlined dataset.
⚙️ Power Query Efficiency: Witness how Power Query streamlines the data cleaning process, making it significantly faster and more efficient than traditional Excel methods.
🚀 Unlock the Potential of Power Query: Discover how to handle complex data imports with ease, saving time and effort. Whether you're dealing with irregularities or blank rows, Power Query is your go-to solution.
🎓 Excel Mastery Simplified: Bill's walkthrough simplifies complex data cleaning tasks, empowering you with the skills to tackle similar challenges effortlessly.
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I encouraged them to start using the Get & Transform tools in Excel for cleaning this date. After the seminar, I created a text file with many of the issues that were in their workbooks.
Table of Contents
(0:00) Fixed Width Text File for Excel
(0:50) Excel Text Import Wizard UI for Marking Column Locations
(1:19) Finding column start locations for Power Query
(1:59) Importing to Excel from Text/CSV
(2:18) Power Query incorrectly guesses comma as delimiter
(2:42) Power Query make column wider
(2:55) Power Query removing top 6 rows
(3:30) Power Query Split by Position
(4:20) Power Query Use First Row as Headers
(4:30) Deleting non-data rows
(6:00) Converting blanks to null and Fill Down
(7:00) Marking date columns in Power Query
(7:46) Refreshing Power Query
(8:45) Inserting blank row at each change in employee
(11:17) Clicking Like really helps the algorithm
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