oosy2017 Excel formula: Remove leading and trailing spaces from text | Excaljet, EXCELJE Training Videos Functions Formulas Shorteuts Blog Search... Search Remove leading and trailing spaces from text misc: | im a [Bl] estes Reemgon 0558) ise cerca sey frcoatane i ee oe aa a a 6 Pulp Fiction (1994) Pulp Fiction (1994) cetera arta ee et 8 (12 Angry Men (1957), 12 Angry Men (1957) (eas lee i Sees fees fy] Pant ay ee a 2 Fight Club (1999) Fight Club (1999) "| We) w | TUM CLEAN. TRMand CLEAN '*3 Je = EXCELJET anc ae EE Generic formula = TRING Explanation Ifyou need to strip leading and trailing spaces from text in one or more cells, you can use the TRIM function. In the example show, the formula in cell C3 is = TRIM(B3) Once you've removed extra spaces, you can copy the cells with formulas and paste special elsewhere as "values" to get the final text. Video: How to clean text with TRIM and CLEAN How this formula works ‘The TRIM function is fully automatic. It removes removes both leading and trailing spaces from text, and also “normalizes” multiple spaces between words to one space character only. All you need to do is supply a reference to a cell ‘TRIM with CLEAN 130 hitps:fexcalja.netiformula/temoverlsading-anet-traling-spaces-rom-ext 154109/2017 Exc formula: Remove leading and trang spaces from text | Excel = TRIM(CLEAN(text)) ‘The CLEAN function removes a range of non-printing characters, including line breaks, and returns “cleaned” text. The TRIM function then takes over to remove extra spaces and returns the final tex. Other problematic characters Note that CLEAN is not able to remove all non-printing characters, notably @ non-breaking space, which can be appear in Excel as (CHAR(160). By adding the SUBSTITUTE function to the formula, you can remove specific characters. For example, to remove a non- breaking space, you can use: = TRIM(CLEAN( SUBSTITUTE (81, CHAR(16@)," *))) Author Dave Bruns Related formulas Clean and reformat telephone numbers (One way to clean up and reformat telephone numbers isto strip out all extraneous characters, then apply Excel's built-in telephone number format, This formula above uses a series of nested. SUBSTITUTE functions to strip out spaces, hyphens, periods... Remove unwanted characters ‘To remove specific unwanted characters in Excel, you can use a formula based on the substitute function. In the example shown, the formula in CA is: = SUBSTITUTE ( B4 , CHAR (202), "") Which removes a series of 4 invisible characters at... Excel CLEAN Function ‘The Excel CLEAN function takes a text string and returns text that has been “cleaned” of line breaks and other non-printable characters. Excel TRIM Funetion ‘The Excel TRIM function strips extra spaces from text, leaving only a single space between words and no space characters at the start or end of the text. Excel SUBSTITUTE Function ‘The Excel SUBSTITUTE function replaces text in a given string by matching. For example -SUBSTITUTE("952-455-7865",~",") returns "9524557865"; the dash is stripped. SUBSTITUTE is case-sensitive and does not support wildcards. 130 | videos hitps:fexcalja.netiformula/temoverlsading-anet-traling-spaces-rom-ext 215,osioo/2017 Excel formula: Remove leading and trailing spaces from text | Excaljet, How to clean text with TRIM and CLEAN When you bring data into Excel you sometimes end up with extra spaces and line breaks. This short video shows you how to clean things up with TRIM and CLEAN. Good links Cleaning "Dirty" Data (Ron de Bruin) Excel Formula Training [x13 Formulas are the key to getting work done in Excel. 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Thanks, Tyler forthe feedback! © + Reply» Sharer Bsamcine O radoieqeteyuramnaacieqaass Briacy ‘Topic Guide + Function Guide * Formula Examples + Excel Shortcuts + Pivot Tables + Excel Charts * Conditional formatting. * Data Validation Guide + Nested IF examples * How-to videos * Video training + Excel people + Excel books + Recent comments Key functions + IP function + VLOOKUP function + SUMIES fun + COUNTIFS function + INDEX function + MATCH function + SUMPRODUCT function Hi-T'm Dave Bruns, and Irun Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal isto help you work faster in Excel. We 130 _cteate short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and hitps:fexcalja.netiformula/temoverlsading-anet-traling-spaces-rom-ext