Excel for Jobs: From Zero to Confident

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I'm learning "Excel for Jobs: From Zero to Confident" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Work data is messy, so clean it first".

What the lesson teaches:
- Good work data has one header row, one record per row and one type of thing per column (for example, dates only in the Date column). Excel uses the first-row labels as field names in PivotTables.
- Flash Fill: type one example of the pattern you want next to your data (for example, the first name pulled out of "Ana Lopez"), then use Data > Flash Fill or press Ctrl+E (Windows). Excel fills the rest of the column by copying your pattern.
- Flash Fill types values, not formulas, so the results do not update if the original data changes.
- Data > Remove Duplicates deletes repeated rows. Work on a copy of the sheet the first time so you can compare.
- Insert > Table (Windows shortcut Ctrl+T) turns a range into a table. Tables grow automatically when you add rows, and formulas you write in one row fill down by themselves.
- Give each table a name (Table Design > Table Name), for example Sales. You can then write formulas like =SUM(Sales[Amount]), which are easier to read than =SUM(D2:D500).

The exercise I'm working on:
Make a 15-row customer list with full names, emails and cities. Copy two rows so you have duplicates. Use Flash Fill to split first names, Remove Duplicates to clean it, then turn it into a table named Customers.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Work data is messy, so clean it first" from the course "Excel for Jobs: From Zero to Confident".

Here's what the lesson says:
Before you bake a cake, you wash the bowl and line up the ingredients. Work data is the same: first you tidy it, then you use it. A clean list means one thing per box and no copies of the same row.

The activity:
Make a 15-row customer list with full names, emails and cities. Copy two rows so you have duplicates. Use Flash Fill to split first names, Remove Duplicates to clean it, then turn it into a table named Customers.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.