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ferdy - 11 May 2005 09:20 GMT
I am struggling with Trim.  Please can somebody advise me step by step what I
should do to remove an unwanted space from text entries.  I have a column
which is approx 2000 rows long, and quite a few of the cells have a space
before the text (ie on the left hand side of the text).  I am fairly sure the
work sheet contains imported data , as it is an address data base with quite
a few columns, and all the columns suffer from this problem (they are also
out of sequence across the columns in some cases but I can fix those
individually).  I dont know which software the data was was exported from as
I was given the worsheet to cleanse.  I think I should perhaps use Clean
first to see if they are actually spaces but I am not sure how to do this
either.  Any help very gratefully received please.
Kassie - 11 May 2005 09:50 GMT
With the incorrect data in A1, in B1 enter =TRIM(A1)
Copy down for all rows, then copy the range, and paste special values in
column A

> I am struggling with Trim.  Please can somebody advise me step by step what I
> should do to remove an unwanted space from text entries.  I have a column
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> first to see if they are actually spaces but I am not sure how to do this
> either.  Any help very gratefully received please.
Neil - 11 May 2005 09:51 GMT
If your string is in cell A1, and reads "         My String" (Without quotes!)

Then to put a trimmed version in another cell use the formula

=Trim(A1)

in the target cell

HTH

Neil
www.nwarwick.co.uk

> I am struggling with Trim.  Please can somebody advise me step by step what I
> should do to remove an unwanted space from text entries.  I have a column
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> first to see if they are actually spaces but I am not sure how to do this
> either.  Any help very gratefully received please.
ferdy - 11 May 2005 10:21 GMT
Kassie & Neil
Thank you for your advice - it is so simple, but it has saved me hours and
hours of work.  
I am very grateful.

> If your string is in cell A1, and reads "         My String" (Without quotes!)
>
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> > first to see if they are actually spaces but I am not sure how to do this
> > either.  Any help very gratefully received please.
Kassie - 11 May 2005 11:10 GMT
Glad to have been of help.  Thanks for the response

> Kassie & Neil
> Thank you for your advice - it is so simple, but it has saved me hours and
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> > > first to see if they are actually spaces but I am not sure how to do this
> > > either.  Any help very gratefully received please.
 
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