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

You can use Replace to remove a space from the cells in a row or column if they contain no spaces you want to preserve. Restrict Replace to your selected cell range by using the Replace options.

Use the SUBSTITUTE () function to remove non-printable characters in Excel Excel offers a CODE () function which returns the ASCII code for a given character.

Excel's Trim function will remove all but one space between words; however, it cannot remove non-breaking spaces – this requires a combination Excel's Substitute and Trim functions.

One obvious way to clean up data in Excel is to use the Find and Replace function, but Excel does a whole lot more.

Finding and removing blank spaces and rows in Excel is easy and can be done by using the "Find & Select" feature. Here's how to delete blank rows in Excel on a Mac or PC.