Tips on cleaning up PDF exported to Excel RRs?

I've picked up a few tricks for doing this like TRIM/power query but I'm curious if anyone else has some additional tips/tricks. Any youtube video I've seen on the subject has used pretty "clean" excel docs. Anyone who has received PDF versions of rent rolls knows what I'm talking about... Tragic

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TRIM() is great to remove excess/unwanted space

Text to columns is another great tool as well to split up data that got mashed together

I'm a bit of a noob w/ power query but I've found it useful for cleaning out useless data

From, adventures in CRE, I learned a pretty slick way of gathering all market rent/in-place rent from a MF rent roll using index/match

Simple copy and paste w/ transpose is also pretty useful

 

I am by no means an expert in Excel, but as simple of a function as it is, I have been using the snipping tool for PDF rent rolls and importing the picture through the "From Picture" function and producing really clean data. It's been crazy easy with certain RR's.

 

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