If you've ever had a list of first and last names that you wanted to separate Excel and Google Sheets make it easy. Here's how to do it in each application.

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

You can use Excel's built-in substitute function to remove or replace a substring of a string of characters in Excel. This can include removing hyphens from Social Security numbers or any other ...

Next perform the 42 search-and-replace operations as you have been doing, and when you have completed those operations, from Excel’s View tab, select Macros, Stop Recording. In the future, you can run ...