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Use Flash Fill to rapidly combine or separate columnar data

Use Flash Fill to rapidly combine or separate columnar data - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

From the course: Excel Tips Weekly

Use Flash Fill to rapidly combine or separate columnar data

- [Instructor] One of Excel's most powerful tools, 2 introduced in Excel 2013, is called Flash Fill. 3 I've got different sets of data on this worksheet here. 4 Column A is a list of names, 5 and nothing truly wrong with those, 6 but if these are next to other columns 7 where I've got contact information, 8 I can't sort my list by last name. 9 Now there is a technique 10 for splitting the data into separate columns. 11 We can do this by way of the data tab 12 and a feature called text to columns. 13 But many times, because of the new feature, 14 we won't need to use text to columns. 15 It still has other uses. 16 What I'm going to type and cell B-2 here 17 is frost, comma-space atom. 18 And there are different ways to approach this, 19 one approach is to type an entry, 20 press enter, start the second entry. 21 Now if the second entry is going to be in the same style, 22 I'll be typing hood, 23 but as soon as I type…

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