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TRIM

TRIM strips leading, trailing, and repeated spaces, leaving single spaces between words. It is the first thing to try when VLOOKUP or MATCH returns #N/A on values that look identical.

Excel
=TRIM(A2)
Google Sheets
=TRIM(A2)

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How it works

  1. 1A2 is the text to clean.
  2. 2Leading and trailing spaces are removed.
  3. 3Multiple spaces between words collapse to one.

Need a version for your data?

Try: “Remove the extra spaces from the text in A2”

Related

TEXTJOINLEFT / RIGHT / MIDSUBSTITUTE

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