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Removing excess spaces and non printing characters Often data imported into an Excel worksheet contains excess spaces or strange (often unprintable) characters. Excel provides you with two functions to help whip your data into shape: TRIM and CLEAN:  TRIM removes all leading and trailing spaces, and it replaces internal strings of multiple spaces by a single space.  CLEAN removes all nonprinting characters from a string. These “garbage” characters often appear when you import certain types of data. This example uses the TRIM function. The formula returns Fourth Quarter Earnings (with no excess spaces): =TRIM(“   Fourth    Quarter     Earnings     “)

Turn off Error Checking With error checking turned on in Excel, you see an error indicator if you enter a date with a two-digit year into a cell that has text formatting applied to it. If you want, you can turn off this Error Checking feature. Click the File tab. Click Options . In the Excel Options dialog box, click the Formulas category. Under Error checking rules , clear the Cells containing years represented as 2 digits check box. Click OK .