If your spreadsheet has a lot of unwanted duplicate values, you're not stuck with them. You can remove them. We'll show you how to remove duplicates in Excel.

You can prevent Excel from converting numbers to scientific notation. This post shows how to remove scientific notation in Excel.

2] Remove dashes in Excel by using the Find and Replace method This method does not work if a particular format is already applied to your cells, say SSN (Social Security Number) format.

Install the Remove Duplicates add-on from the Google Workspace Marketplace. In your sheet, click Extensions, then Remove Duplicates, and choose: Find Duplicates or Uniques.

By placing a zero before the decimal, the number is more readily recognized as less than one. By configuring a custom number format you can tell Excel to remove leading zeros.

If there are many blank rows in your Excel sheet, you can delete them and tidy up the document using the "Find and Select" feature. Here's how.

Combine an Excel custom format with data validation and remove the pressure for input perfection from personnel by letting Excel do the work.

If your source data is in Excel and has duplicates, run Power Query to remove those duplicates before running a Word mail merge.