Tip: If Excel has trouble understanding elements of your data set — for example, failing to recognize column headers as such — try converting your data to table format first.

This is the demonstration file to accompany the article, How to use Microsoft Excel’s VSTACK() function to combine multiple data sets by Susan Harkins.

It's one of the best Excel functions that can save you time. For example ... I can take my sales data table and generate a new table that only includes products within a certain category. This ...

You can set up conditional formatting in Excel for dates. We have included detailed examples you can try while reading the guide.

Excel offers several tools to simplify this process and improve data quality: TRIM: Removes extra spaces from text, making sure uniformity across your data set.