How to remove non-printable characters from cells in Excel?
Working with files from various sources or pasting information from other applications into Excel can often introduce non-printable characters into your worksheet. These characters can disrupt the cleanliness and presentation of your data. To maintain a clean and professional-looking worksheet, it's essential to remove these non-printable characters. This guide will show you how to quickly and efficiently eliminate them from your Excel cells.
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Remove non-printable characters from cells with the CLEAN function
Remove non-printable characters from cells with Kutools for Excel
Remove non-printable characters from cells with the CLEAN function
The CLEAN function can remove all of the non-printable characters from the cells. For example, I have Column C (C2:C11) needs to remove the non-printable characters. You can do as the following tutorial:
1. Select a blank cell D2 adjacent to C2, and input the formula below.
=CLEAN(C2)2. Tap the Enter key.
3. And then drag the fill handle over the range of cells that you want to remove non-printing characters. And all of the non-printable characters have been removed. See screenshot:
Remove non-printable characters from cells with Kutools for Excel
With Kutools for Excel’s Delete Characters, you can quickly and easily remove non-printable characters from cells.
Step 1. Select the range you want to work with.
Step 2. Click Kutools > Text > Delete Characters. See screenshot:
Step 3. Check Non-printing in the pop-up dialog, see screenshot:
Step 4. Click Ok or Apply to delete non-printing characters in the range.
- This utility also can delete numeric characters, non-numeric characters, non-printing characters, and so on. For more detailed information about Delete Characters, please visit the Delete Characters feature description.
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