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

Removing these spaces can help the Remove Duplicates tool to better detect the duplicate values you want to remove. Think you know how to use Excel?

Excel represents such characters as boxes. In this post, we will show you how you may identify and clean these characters from your Excel data. How to remove Non-printable Characters in Excel?