Importing data into Excel from other sources can result in long, messy strings of text you need to parse. We'll show you how.

Excel’s Flash Fill feature has been around since Excel 2013, so you may be familiar with it. When using it to parse, enter the first value in the target column so Excel can evaluate the pattern.

To pull data from another sheet in Excel, use cell references, use the VLOOKUP function, or use the INDEX and MATCH functions.

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