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gloria81101

Deleting large gaps in address
 
I am using a large Excel spreadsheet to address my letters using mail merge.
When I merge some of the addressee names have multiple spaces between the
first and the last name. How can I clear this up in my spreadsheet before I
merge without doing it manually.

John Bundy

Deleting large gaps in address
 
If data is in A1 type =Trim(A1) this should give you the right result

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"gloria81101" wrote:

I am using a large Excel spreadsheet to address my letters using mail merge.
When I merge some of the addressee names have multiple spaces between the
first and the last name. How can I clear this up in my spreadsheet before I
merge without doing it manually.



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