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Default Funtions Not Taking Effect

On Nov 10, 12:07*pm, John C <johnc@stateofdenial wrote:
More information is needed. What does your data currently look like. What
results are you getting?
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** John C **



"BrownsFan" wrote:
I'm attempting to use the Trim function on a column of text data and
it's having no effect. *Neither are the left or replace functions.
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I think I just found a fix. I was trying to trim a cell with a vaule
of " F012345 " formatted as text to a blank cell formatted as text.
When I changed the format of the blank cell to general, the trim
function worked. It doesn't make sense to me and I don't think I
should have to reformat the blank cell to general in order to make it
work.