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

Open your spreadsheet in Excel and locate the cells containing the whitespace that needs to be removed. Use the Trim function to remove whitespace created from normal spaces.

Removing these leading spaces – or trailing spaces that fall at the end of a cell's contents – requires an Excel function.

The space must be included to show up in cell E31. I included several other spaces in the formula above, but only one of those has to be there. You must have the space between the beginning quote and ...