This post will show you how to remove the first or last few characters or certain position characters from the text in Microsoft Excel.

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

Excel 2007 gives you a few different options for removing characters, including simple per-character deletion or the removal of characters from entire text strings via Excel functions and commands.

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