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How to remove trailing spaces from cells in Microsoft Excel?

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Supposing you got an Excel worksheet from others, and you found that there are unwanted spaces at the end of the cells. And these trailing spaces are not easy to find out and affecting cell sorting, calculating, or other operations. This article will introduce several methods to remove trailing spaces from cells in Microsoft Excel as below screenshot shown.

Trailing spaces removed from cells

Remove trailing spaces from cells in Excel with VBA
Remove trailing spaces from cells in Excel with Kutools for Excel

Remove trailing spaces from cells in Excel with VBA

Using the Trim function is easy to remove the trailing space in one cell, but time-consuming to remove trailing spaces in many cells. Here provides a macro to remove all trailing spaces of all cells in a selection.

1: Select the range you want to remove trailing spaces from cells.

2. Press the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

3. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following macro in the Module Window.

VBA code: Remove all trailing spaces from selected cells in Excel

Sub NoSpaces()
'Update by Extendoffice 20180613
Dim c As Range
For Each c In Selection.Cells
c = Trim(c)
Next
End Sub

4. Press the F5 key to run this macro. Then all trailing spaces are removed from cells of selected range immediately.

Remove trailing spaces from cells in Excel with Kutools for Excel

This section is going to introduce a handy addin - Kutools for Excel. Its Remove Spaces tool can help you remove all trailing spaces from cells quickly. Please do as follows

Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.

1. Select the range you want to remove all trailing spaces from cells, then click Kutools > Text > Remove Spaces.

Remove Spaces option on the Kutools tab on the ribbon

2. In the Remove Spaces dialog box, check the Trailing Spaces option in Spaces Type section and then click the OK button. See screenshot:

Remove Spaces dialog box

Then you can see all trailing spaces have been removed from selected cells immediately. See screenshot:

Trailing spaces removed from cells

  If you want to have a free trial (30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.

Demo: Remove trailing spaces from selected cells with Kutools for Excel

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