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Clay formatters overview

Clay formatters overview

Format your Clay table data for free.

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Clay Formatters Overview

Clay Formatters allow you to format your cell data without using any credits.

Action Format Date/Time

Transform a given date or datetime into a given format.

To format your date/time:

Step 1: Input the date and format

Select the date or datetime you want to parse and the format of the value you want to convert the value to.

(Optional) Step 2: Specify the timezones of the original and new values.

(Optional) Step 3: Select the language of your locale.

Step 4: Configure run settings.

By default, new rows within your Clay table will automatically be formatted. Learn more about auto-update in this brief guide.

To run enrichment only under specific conditions, use formulas that trigger the column when the formula is true. Learn more about AI formulas in this Clay University lesson.

Step 5: Run your enrichment to format date/time.

Action Normalize Company Name

Normalize your company names by removing terms like Inc., LLC, and other suffixes for a cleaner format.

To normalize:

Step 1: Input the company name you want to normalize

(Optional) Step 2: Enable the ‘Normalize Case’ option to automatically transform company names into Title Case (Ex. ‘SALESFORCE’ to ‘Salesforce’)

Step 3: Configure run settings.

By default, new rows within your Clay table will automatically be formatted. Learn more about auto-update in this brief guide.

To run enrichment only under specific conditions, use formulas that trigger the column when the formula is true. Learn more about AI formulas in this Clay University lesson.

Step 4: Run your enrichment to normalize your company name.

Action Normalize Phone Number

Format and normalize phone numbers to e164, international, and national formats.

To normalize:

Step 1: Input the phone number you want to normalize

Step 2 (Optional): Enter a country code to include in the formatted phone number. If no country code is provided or included in the input number, it will default to “US.”

Step 3: Configure run settings.

By default, new rows within your Clay table will automatically be formatted. Learn more about auto-update in this brief guide.

To run enrichment only under specific conditions, use formulas that trigger the column when the formula is true. Learn more about AI formulas in this Clay University lesson.

Step 4: Run your enrichment to normalize your phone number.

Action Remove Extra Whitespace from Text

Removes extra whitespace from input text.

To format text:

Step 1: Input the text you want to remove extra whitespace from

Step 2: Configure run settings.

By default, new rows within your Clay table will automatically be formatted. Learn more about auto-update in this brief guide.

To run enrichment only under specific conditions, use formulas that trigger the column when the formula is true. Learn more about AI formulas in this Clay University lesson.

Step 3: Run your enrichment to remove extra whitespace from text.

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