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Delete leading, trailing and excessive spaces
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This utility removes all spaces except for single spaces between words in the selected cells.All the spaces at the beginning and end of each cell value will be removed and all repetitive spaces will be replaced by a single space.
For example the value ' Lennox Street 141' will be replaced with 'Lennox Street 141'.
This utility is a quick alternative for Excels =TRIM () function.
Screenshots
Example screenshot: 1 Before
Example screenshot: 2 Strip the leading, trailing and duplicated spaces
Example screenshot: 3 After
Practical tricks on how this can help you
Practical 'real world' examples on our blog that show you how this tool can help you in Excel. Enjoy!- Tip: Quickly remove spaces from the beginning and end of your data
- Tip: Get rid of unwanted spaces in your data
Starting this tool
- Click ASAP Utilities › Text › 11. Delete leading, trailing and excessive spaces
- Specify a Keyboard Shortcut: ASAP Utilities › Favorites & Shortcut keys › Edit your favorite tools and shortcut keys...
Additional keywords for this tool:
trim, Double space, extra spaces, remove excessive whitespace, unnecessary spaces, consecutive whitespace, reduce internal whitespace to single space, white space, removes extra white spaces between two words in a character string, =TRIM(), extraneous spaces, clean duff cells, fix empty cells that Excel does not recognize as empty, fix blank cells, blanks, remove unwanted space from cell
trim, Double space, extra spaces, remove excessive whitespace, unnecessary spaces, consecutive whitespace, reduce internal whitespace to single space, white space, removes extra white spaces between two words in a character string, =TRIM(), extraneous spaces, clean duff cells, fix empty cells that Excel does not recognize as empty, fix blank cells, blanks, remove unwanted space from cell