You can remove leading, trailing, and extra spaces between characters and numbers in Excel using TRIM(), SUBSTITUTE() or Find and Replace.

Use the CLEAN () function to remove non-printable characters in Excel The CLEAN () function in Excel removes all non-printable characters from a given text string.

How to Remove Characters in Excel 2007. Microsoft Excel, part of the Office software suite, allows you to create business-oriented worksheets composed of columns, rows and cells. Within these ...

How to Use the Clean Function in Excel for Multiple Cells. Microsoft Excel's Clean function strips nonprintable characters from cell text. These nonprintable characters constitute the first 32 ...

Q: When I import files into Excel, I see these narrow boxes appear in some of my cells. I might also see some other strange characters. What are these and how do I remove them? A: If you work with ...

This guide provides step-by-step instructions with examples how to extract a substring in Excel using various text functions.