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Useful Excel Tips in Triming

This document provides examples of using TRIM, CLEAN, and SUBSTITUTE functions in Excel to remove unnecessary characters from strings. TRIM removes leading and trailing spaces, CLEAN removes nonprinting characters, and SUBSTITUTE replaces specific characters within a string. Together these functions can be used to clean up data values by removing extra whitespace and control characters.

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Useful Excel Tips in Triming

This document provides examples of using TRIM, CLEAN, and SUBSTITUTE functions in Excel to remove unnecessary characters from strings. TRIM removes leading and trailing spaces, CLEAN removes nonprinting characters, and SUBSTITUTE replaces specific characters within a string. Together these functions can be used to clean up data values by removing extra whitespace and control characters.

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Useful Excel Tips in Trimming

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Data BD 122 ="XY"&CHAR(7)&"453"

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MN987 Formula =TRIM(A2) Description (Result) Removes the trailing space from the string "BD 122 " (BD 112) Removes the nonprinting BEL character (ASCII value of 7) from the string value created by the expression ="XY"&CHAR(7)&"453" (XY453)

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=CLEAN(A3)

=TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A4,CHAR(160),CHAR(32))) Replaces each nonbreaking space character (Unicode value of 160) with a space character (ASCII value of 32) by using the SUBSTITUTE function, and then removes the leading and multiple embedded spaces from the string " BD 122" (BD 112) =CLEAN(SUBSTITUTE(A5,CHAR(127),CHAR(7))) Replaces the nonprinting DEL character (ASCII value of 127) with a BEL character (ASCII value of 7) by using the SUBSTITUTE function, and then removes the BEL character from the string "MN987" (MN987)

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