Removing a space within a cell

[Guest]

I exported data that automatically adds a space before the value in each
cell. How do I remove the space without clicking in each individual cell and
deleting the space?

 

[Andy Brown]

I exported data that automatically adds a space before the value in each

cell. How do I remove the space without clicking in each individual cell and
deleting the space?

Use =TRIM(A1)

or

=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-1)

Copy the results, then Edit -- Paste Special (Values).

Rgds,
Andy

 

[Gord Dibben]

Jerry

=TRIM(A1) will remove extra spaces.

Drag/copy as far as you need.

Unless they are html non-breaking spaces, for which there are other methods.

See David McRitchie's TrimAll code.

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

 

[Dave Peterson]

Another way:

Select your data (single column at a time)
data|text to columns
fixed width
remove any lines that excel guessed
plop it right back where you got it.

This trims both the leading and trailing, but leaves internal spacing alone.