spreadsheet cleanup

Spreadsheet cleanup on WindowsForum.com covers practical ways to repair and restructure messy Microsoft Excel workbooks, especially files inherited from someone else. The tagged discussion highlights built-in Excel tools such as Go To Special, conditional formatting, TEXTSPLIT, Excel tables, and named ranges with helper columns, all usable without add-ins on current Excel versions, though TEXTSPLIT needs Microsoft 365 or Excel 2024. A recurring theme is workflow order: inspect the data first, flag suspicious values without altering them, then add structure once contents are clean. The focus stays on finding blanks, duplicate IDs, and odd values before formatting or analysis.