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To clean large Excel datasets, you can automate preprocessing by assessing the total row count and conditionally converting sheets to Parquet for faster I/O. This approach applies regex-based text cleaning to preserve Chinese characters and exports the final cleaned data to a downloadable Excel file.

Parquet conversion is a process that transforms Excel sheets into a Parquet file format to improve read and write performance for large datasets. You need it for Excel data preprocessing when your dataset exceeds a specified row threshold, ensuring faster I/O during bulk cleaning tasks.

To remove special symbols and digits while keeping Chinese characters in Excel, apply a regex-based text normalization process to your specified text columns. This targeted cleaning mechanism preserves Chinese characters and strips away unwanted symbols across multi-sheet workflows.

Yes, you can process multiple sheets in an Excel file for bulk text cleaning. The workflow assesses total row counts across sheets, conditionally converts them to Parquet for performance, applies regex text normalization, and exports all cleaned data back to Excel.

No, this Excel data cleaning workflow does not require any external dependencies or components to operate. You simply place your input_data.xlsx file in the workflow directory and run the process to output cleaned_data.xlsx with a local download link.

A limitation of using regex for text cleaning in bulk Excel data is that it specifically targets text fields to preserve Chinese characters while removing special symbols and digits. It is designed for analytics, finance, and reporting preprocessing rather than complex semantic text extraction.