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Default Two apparently identical cells in excel fail an equality test,Y?

I have two cells with the same text typped in them.
But they fail all the possible equality test, may it be "exact"," =" ( with
an if clause), "vlookup", ...
Changing the cell format doesn't change anything.
Visually no difference can be seen.
If i retype the name in the problematic cell, then the equality works.
This effect seems to randomly affect some text celle in lists I typped myself.

There might be an easy solution, so if you know it, please let me know,
thank you!
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Suggests some values have leading/trailing blanks (or non-printable
characters). Use TRIM to remove unwanted blanks and see if this solves the
problem.

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I have two cells with the same text typped in them.
But they fail all the possible equality test, may it be "exact"," =" ( with
an if clause), "vlookup", ...
Changing the cell format doesn't change anything.
Visually no difference can be seen.
If i retype the name in the problematic cell, then the equality works.
This effect seems to randomly affect some text celle in lists I typped myself.

There might be an easy solution, so if you know it, please let me know,
thank you!
S.

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