You can remove leading, trailing, and extra spaces between characters and numbers in Excel using TRIM(), SUBSTITUTE() or Find and Replace.

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions.

Highlighting text in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is an optimal way to draw a reviewer's eye directly to that part of the grid, but sometimes you need to refocus that attention.

Often known as the universal data munging tool, Excel is trying out new options for processing messy text as well as entering it more quickly and accurately in the first place.

Have you played with the "Text to Columns" function on the Data menu/tab yet? It's similar but not quite identical to the File Open text importer.