Please see attached video. I am outsourcing data entry and need to "scrub" my data to have a clean excel file to use for organizing data and uploading to google earth. A lot of the data I am getting leaves excess space in the cells causing it to wrap or expand the cell. Please advise if there is a way to handle this aside from going in and deleting spaces from each cell. I have many thousands of rows of date. TRIM doesn't work.

I have also thought about text to columns as a solution to clean everything up.

I appreciate the input.

http://www.screencast.com/t/OE5rzQXYk

You could try

SUBSTITUTE(A1;CHAR(160),"")

If that doesn't work I think you will have to upload a file with actual data.

Interesting link on "cleaning "dirty" data" : http://www.rondebruin.nl/win/s9/win017.htm

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On the "Substitiute" function, can you explain so I know what cells I am adding? What does the 160 represent? I attached a spreadsheet witha couple of cells with that problem. Thanks

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Book1.xlsx (8.0 KB, 9 views)

=TRIM(CLEAN(SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(TRIM(A7),LEN(TRIM(A7))-OR(RIGHT(TRIM(A7))={"?","!","."})),CHAR(160)," ")))

This function was the winner. Holy **** that was cool.

Se the attached file and the following link.

https://support.office.com/en-us/art...c-fe5303222c9d

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CHAR160.xlsx (8.7 KB, 10 views)