1. Can your SQL handle that right-trim? Might be faster.
2. Do a right trim without testing first.
3. Put the whole range in an array and do the right-trimming on the array
elements then put back in the range.
4. Use RTrim$ instead of RTrim as it is up to twice as fast.

RBS


"Tim Childs" wrote in message
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Hi

I have tables of data from a financial system where the non-numeric raw
data is filled with spaces when supplied to me. I am using a loop to test
each cell for these "filler spaces" on the right hand end of each cell and
then applying RTRIM to get the valid text.

Is there a shortcut alternative to using the looping - it seems quite slow

Thanks

Tim