The Select tool is useful for modifying and rearranging your data set. It allows you to include exclude, reorder, rename, or resize columns in your data set. Also, if you remember chapter 1.5 date time now, you'll recall that the current date and time is actually stored as text by default, and the Select tool allows us to set it back to a date format. Let's start a new workflow by importing spreadsheet 2.2 into our workflow. We'll go to the Insert tab, drag in our input data tool, and select 2.2 select spreadsheet. Press OK. And again, we have our example HR file here.

We'll go to the preparation tab and drag in a select tool. And in the configuration menu on the left, we have the metadata for our fields and this is why we can play around with it and Maybe rename last name to surname, date of birth to GRB date of joining to join date. Let's move salary to the end of the file. And finally, we can see that ultrix has picked a date of birth and date of joining as date formats. Let's add a browse tool to the end of this by pressing Ctrl Shift B and we'll run our workflow. As you can see, the columns have been renamed here surname to DOB and joined date and salary has been rearranged.