🧹 The Space Cleaner

Goal: Clean up messy user input.
TRIM removes all extra spaces from text except for single spaces between words.

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💻 Formula Structure

=TRIM(text)
  • 1. Text: The text string to clean.
  • Action: Removes leading/trailing spaces. Reduces internal spaces to one.
-- Clean up " Data Science "
=TRIM( A1 )
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⚠️ Common Pitfalls

🚫 Non-Breaking Spaces
TRIM removes standard spaces (ASCII 32). It does NOT remove Non-Breaking Spaces (  or ASCII 160) often found in web data.
✅ Fix: Use =SUBSTITUTE(A1, CHAR(160), " ") inside TRIM.
🚫 Line Breaks
TRIM does not remove line breaks. Use the CLEAN function to remove non-printable characters.