Cleaning Messy Excel and CSV Files with AI
Merged cells, duplicate rows, and inconsistent formatting in an old spreadsheet? Here's how to clean it up automatically instead of fixing it by hand.
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- Why "just open it in Excel" doesn't fix everything
- A messy spreadsheet, duplicate rows, a merged multi-row header, inconsistent date formats mixed in one column, is easy to spot but slow to fix by hand, especially on a file with thousands of rows. Datafromfile reads the real file (not just a text guess) and gives you an editable table plus AI cleaning actions to fix common problems in a few clicks.
- What Datafromfile actually parses
- Unlike tools that only handle CSV, Datafromfile parses real Excel workbooks, `.xlsx` and legacy `.xls`, using a genuine spreadsheet parser, so formulas resolve to their values and multiple sheets are handled correctly, not just decoded as plain text.
- Common cleanup tasks
- Once your file is in the workspace, the AI Actions panel can help with:
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