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How to count the number of characters excluding spaces in Excel cell?

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In general, when you count the number of characters in a cell, it will count including the spaces. But in some cases, what we need is to count the number of characters excluding spaces in a single cell, how can you quickly handle it in Excel?

Count number of characters excluding spaces with formula

Remove all spaces of a cell then count the characters in a cell with Kutools for Excel

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Here I can introduce a formula for you to quickly count the total number of characters excluding spaces in a cell.

1. Select a cell which will output the counted result, for instance, C1, and type this formula =LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","")), and press Enter key to get the result. If you need, you can drag the autofill handle over the cells needed the formula.

A screenshot showing Excel formula to count characters excluding spaces  >>>  A screenshot showing result of character count excluding spaces in Excel

Tip: In the formula, A1 is the cell you want to count the total number of characters excluding spaces.

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If you’d like to use the easiest =LEN() formula to count characters in a cell excluding spaces, you can apply Kutools for Excel’s Remove Spaces function to remove all spaces then count.

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After free installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:

1. Select the cells you want to count the total number of characters from each cell, and click Kutools > Text > Remove Spaces. See screenshot:

A screenshot showing Kutools Remove Spaces option in Excel

2. In the Remove Spaces dialog, check All spaces option, and you can preview the results from the Preview pane. See screenshot:

A screenshot of Kutools Remove Spaces dialog

3. Click Ok, and all the spaces are removed from each cell. Then select a blank cell, for instance, C1, and type =LEN(A1), and press Enter key, and drag autofill handle over the cells which need this formula.

A screenshot of Kutools Remove Spaces result showing formula used to count characters in Excel  >>>  A screenshot showing counted characters

With Kutools for Excel’s Remove Spaces, you can remove all leading spaces, trailing space, extract spaces, leading and trailing space from each cell as you need.

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