Dear Sir,

I copied a list of reference number in HTML format from the MS Outlook and
paste it to Excel worksheet. After that I separated it into columns by using
Data Text t to Columns function.

A B
1 BJH3675
2 BGB1056
3 BHH9444
4 BJH978
5 BFU7095
6 BFU3422
7 BFG9144
8 BFN3659
9 BFN3756


After separation the data in B is in text format.

I find that all the reference number in column B has 4 leading spaces.

I tried to remove these empty spacing by using =TRIM( ) or =TRIM(CLEAN( )),
but it does not work .

May I know why this could happen and how to overcome this problem

Thanks

Low


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