The tutorial explains how to remove blank spaces in Excel using formulas and the Text Toolkit tool. You will learn how to delete leading and trailing spaces in a cell, eliminate extra spaces between words, get rid of non-breaking white space and non-printing characters. What's the biggest p...
If you want to remove extra space, non-breaking spaces and nonprinting characters, please use this formula: =TRIM(CLEAN(SUBSTITUTE(A4,CHAR(160)," "))) Want a pristine spreadsheet free from pesky non-printing characters? With theRemove Charactersfeature ofKutools for Excel, not only can you ...
Here, the SUBSTITUTE function will substitute all instances of CHAR(160) with normal space characters from the B4 cell. The TRIM function will remove those spaces. Press the ENTER key. It will show the result by removing all non-breaking spaces. Use the Fill Handle to AutoFill formula for ...
Method 4 – Remove Non-Breaking Spaces with a Combined Formula After erasing all unnecessary spaces, non-printable characters, and line breaks, some stubborn spaces can still lie in the text. It might be difficult to find those unwanted spaces. The combination ofTRIMandCLEANfunctions cannot erase...
Also read:How to Remove Space before Text in Excel Method #2: Using TRIM, SUBSTITUTE, and CHAR Functions (Removing Non-breaking Leading Spaces) If you pull data from a website into Excel, it may come in with non-breaking leading spaces. ...
#2 - Remove Non-Breaking Leading Spaces in Excel Cell It is very easy to remove normal leading spaces in the Excel cell. However, the TRIM function goes wrong in the case of non-breaking leading spaces. For example, look at the below image. ...
Removing Non-Breaking Spaces The Trim Function alone can not be used to remove non-breaking spaces. This is because the non-breaking spaces are in Char(160) format. To remove these trailing spaces, users would need to use the Substitute Function nested in the Trim Function to remove trailing...
It isquite easy to Excel remove trailing spaces and leading spacesusing the Trim function. In the example below, we have used the TRIM function on both cell D7 and cell D8. Since cell D8 hasnon-breaking spaces, theTRIM formula will not remove these spaces.The leading space is still there...
32 in the 7-bit ASCII character set. In the Unicode character set, there is one more space character called thenon-breaking space,which is commonly used on web pages as the html character. The nonbreaking space has a decimal value of 160, and the TRIM function cannot remove it by ...
Remove all excess spaces including non-printing characters and non-breaking space If there are some non-printing characters in your string such as appeared in Excel as CHAR(160), they cannot be removed successfully with the TRIM function. In this case, you need to combine the TRIM function, ...