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How To Remove Leading or Trailing Space in Excel 2013

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If you are working on importing text files & and you want to remove spaces in Excel i.e. unnecessary spaces whether they are leading spaces in Excel or trailing spaces in Excel, then it is a must read article for you.

In this article, we will learn how to remove leading & trailing spaces in Excel.

 

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  • Text contains in column A has spaces in front & back.
  • In order to remove leading spaces in Excel, we can use Excel TRIM function. However, TRIM in Excel does not remove trailing spaces in Excel.
  • The formula is a combination of TRIM, CLEAN, SUBSTITUTE & CHAR functions.
  • In cell B2, the formula is =TRIM(CLEAN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,CHAR(160)," ")))

 

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In this way, Excel remove spaces which are not required.

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