He selected the Transaction Amount column and told it to . He selected the Date column and told it to keep the "Max" (latest date).

"Install it on the other machines," Henderson said quietly. "And send me a link to that 'Combine' button. I have my own mess to clean up in the budget files."

Elias stared at the screen. The cursor blinked, mocking him. He cracked his knuckles, a nervous habit, and prepared for the all-nighter. He opened the first file. He began the ritual: Select column A, Data tab, Remove Duplicates, confirm range. Then Text to Columns . Then Proper Case formulas in a helper column .

"Consolidate these by morning," his manager, the perpetually stressed Mr. Henderson, barked, dropping a stack of USB drives and a printed list of server paths. "We need to merge the Q3 data from all twenty regional branches. And clean up the duplicates. And merge the cells for the header formatting. And for the love of Wall Street, fix the casing on the names. They’re a mess."

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