Title: How to remove blank spaces in Excel - leading, trailing, non-breaking
Headings: How to remove spaces in Excel - leading, trailing, non-breaking
How to remove spaces in Excel - leading, trailing, non-breaking
How to remove blank spaces in Excel - leading, trailing, between words
=TRIM (A2)
How to delete line breaks and nonprinting characters
=TRIM (CLEAN (A2))
How to remove non-breaking spaces in Excel
=TRIM (SUBSTITUTE (A2, CHAR (160), " "))
=TRIM (CLEAN ( (SUBSTITUTE (A2,CHAR (160)," "))))
How to delete a specific non-printing character
=TRIM (SUBSTITUTE (SUBSTITUTE (A2, CHAR (127), " "), CHAR (160), " ")))
How to remove all spaces in Excel
=SUBSTITUTE (A2, CHAR (32), "")
=SUBSTITUTE (A2," ","")
How to count spaces in Excel
=LEN (A2)-LEN (SUBSTITUTE (A2," ",""))
=LEN (A2)-LEN (TRIM (A2))
Formula-free way to remove spaces and clean data
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Content: But there is no way to spot trailing spaces, those that keep out of sight at the end of cells. It wouldn't be much of a problem if extra spaces were just lying around, but they mess up your formulas. The point is that two cells containing the same text with and without spaces, even if it's as little as a single space character, are deemed different values. So, you may be racking your brain trying to figure out why an obviously correct formula cannot match two seemingly identical entries. Now that you are fully aware of the problem, it's time to work out a solution. There are several ways to remove spaces from string, and this tutorial will help you choose the technique best suited for your particular task and the data type you are working with. Remove spaces in Excel (leading, trailing, extra spaces between words)
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Delete a specific non-printing character
How to remove all spaces in Excel
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How to remove blank spaces in Excel - leading, trailing, between words
If your data set contains superfluous spaces, the Excel TRIM function can help you delete them all in one go - leading, trailing and multiple in-between spaces, except for a single space character between words. A regular TRIM formula is as simple as this: =TRIM (A2)
Where A2 is the cell you want to delete spaces from. As shown in the following screenshot, the Excel TRIM formula successfully eliminated all spaces before and after the text as well as consecutive spaces in the middle of a string.