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

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

Removing these spaces can help the Remove Duplicates tool to better detect the duplicate values you want to remove. Think you know how to use Excel?

Open your spreadsheet in Excel and locate the cells containing the whitespace that needs to be removed. Use the Trim function to remove whitespace created from normal spaces.

By placing a zero before the decimal, the number is more readily recognized as less than one. By configuring a custom number format you can tell Excel to remove leading zeros.