Title: Excel TRIM function - quick way to remove extra spaces
Headings: Excel TRIM function - quick way to remove extra spaces
Excel TRIM function - quick way to remove extra spaces
TRIM function - remove extra spaces in Excel
TRIM (text)
=TRIM (A1)
=TRIM (CLEAN (A1))
How to use TRIM function in Excel - formula examples
How to trim spaces in an entire column of data
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=VALUE (TRIM (A2))
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=MID (A2,FIND (MID (TRIM (A2),1,1),A2),LEN (A2))
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=LEN (A2)-LEN (TRIM (A2))
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=LEN ($A2)>LEN (TRIM ($A2))
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=TRIM (SUBSTITUTE (A1, CHAR (160), " "))
=TRIM (CLEAN (SUBSTITUTE (A1, CHAR (160), " ")))
Leading space: =CODE (LEFT (A1,1))
Trailing space: =CODE (RIGHT (A1,1))
=CODE (MID (A1, n, 1)))
=TRIM (SUBSTITUTE (A1, CHAR (9), " "))
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Content: It deletes all leading, trailing and in-between spaces except for a single space character between words. The syntax of the TRIM function is the easiest one could imagine: TRIM (text)
Where text is a cell that you want to remove excess spaces from. For example, to remove spaces in cell A1, you use this formula: =TRIM (A1)
And the following screenshot shows the result: Yep, it's that simple! If in addition to extra spaces, your data contains line breaks and non-printing characters, use the TRIM function in combination with CLEAN to delete the first 32 non-printing characters in the in the 7-bit ASCII code system. For example, to remove spaces, line breaks and other unwanted characters from cell A1, use this formula: =TRIM (CLEAN (A1))
For more information, please see How to remove non-printing characters in Excel
How to use TRIM function in Excel - formula examples
Now that you know the basics, let's discuss a few specific uses of TRIM in Excel, pitfalls that you may face and working solutions. How to trim spaces in an entire column of data
Supposing you have a column of names that have some whitespace before and after the text, as well as more than one spaces between the words.