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2. Data Entry Tools

Come friends, today we learn how to enter data fast and without mistakes. AutoFill, Flash Fill, data validation (a rule that accepts only correct values), drop-down lists and conditional formatting keep the data clean and make the important numbers in a report stand out at once. Let us start.

What you will learn in this module

  • AutoFill and Fill Series for numbers, dates and custom lists
  • Flash Fill to split and combine text by example
  • Data validation rules, input messages and error alerts
  • Drop-down lists, including a dependent City › Area drop-down
  • Conditional formatting: highlight rules, Top/Bottom, data bars, colour scales, icon sets and formula-based rules

Live story: Six city managers, six spellings

Suppose six city managers type their daily orders into one shared sheet. By Friday the City column has "Pune", "pune " and "PUNE", and someone typed 1,200 minutes as the delivery time. Our monthly totals are wrong before we even start. This chapter stops bad data at the door with Flash Fill, data validation, drop-down lists and conditional formatting.

All numbers in this story are fictional practice data.

Concepts in this chapter

  1. 2.1AutoFill and Fill Series
  2. 2.2Flash Fill
  3. 2.3Data Validation
  4. 2.4Drop-down Lists
  5. 2.5Dependent Drop-down: City › Area
  6. 2.6Conditional Formatting: Highlight Rules and Top/Bottom
  7. 2.7Data Bars, Color Scales and Icon Sets
  8. 2.8Formula-based Conditional Formatting
  9. 2.9Named Lists for Drop-downs

The chapter recap is at the end of the last concept page.

Quick revision cards

Quick revision

Revise this chapter in two minutes. Save the cards on your phone or download them as PNG files. All names and numbers are made up for practice.

Revision card: Data entry: Flash Fill, drop-downs, row colours. Example data table with Flash Fill the first names: Shraddha, Ruhi; Drop-down list of cities in the City column: 3 choices; Colour the whole row when Status is Late: row 3 coloured.
Card 1 of 2: Data entry: Flash Fill, drop-downs, row colours · Download PNG
Revision card: Data Bars vs Color Scales vs Icon Sets. Covers Data Bars; Color Scales; Icon Sets; Highlight Rules; Top/Bottom. With a photo of Ravindra Bagale and a short tip.
Card 2 of 2: Data Bars vs Color Scales vs Icon Sets · Download PNG

More cards for every chapter: Ravi Sir's Cards.