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

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.

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 ...