I can onlt assume that it was because I did not include the third argument
of the SUBSTITUTE() but it works fine for me in XL97. Try:

=--TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(160),""))

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HTH

Sandy
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and the crowning place of kings


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"Erika" wrote in message
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I tried this formula and the result I got was FALSE. I am not sure what
that
means?

"Sandy Mann" wrote:

Quite often downloaded data will have non-breaking spaces Character 160
attached to them that TRIM() does not remove. Try:

=--SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(160),)

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Sandy
In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland
and the crowning place of kings


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"Erika" wrote in message
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I have a report that I download into excel - it has a currency value and
when
I try to do a calculation on it - it will not work. I noticed that the
values are not formatted as a number so I changed that. I also noticed
there
are some extra spaces in the field I tried the clean function, the trim
function and convert text to columns to attempt to isolate and remove
the
extra spaces - none seemed to work.

Any other suggestions to get these converted to text so calculations
will
work?