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I am using CONCATENATE function to merge a1-b1-c1 cells.

Althoug it works fine the resulting cell has a huge SPACE between a1
and b1 although I couldn't know whay?

What could be the problem?

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Maybe you have trailing spaces in A1 or leading spaces in B1 or both?????

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I am using CONCATENATE function to merge a1-b1-c1 cells.

Althoug it works fine the resulting cell has a huge SPACE between a1
and b1 although I couldn't know whay?

What could be the problem?

Thanks,
Jo


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Your data in A1 may have space at the end of it.

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I am using CONCATENATE function to merge a1-b1-c1 cells.

Althoug it works fine the resulting cell has a huge SPACE between a1
and b1 although I couldn't know whay?

What could be the problem?

Thanks,
Jo



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Your data in A1 may have space at the end of it.

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I am using CONCATENATE function to merge a1-b1-c1 cells.


Althoug it works fine the resulting cell has a huge SPACE between a1
and b1 although I couldn't know whay?


What could be the problem?


Thanks,
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But I re-copied it and did paste special as value but still have the
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The problem is probably that either A1 or B1 has a lot of space characters
in it. See what =LEN(A1) and =LEN(TRIM(A1)) say, and equivalently for B1.
You may also have non-printing characters, so try CLEAN instead of TRIM.
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I am using CONCATENATE function to merge a1-b1-c1 cells.

Althoug it works fine the resulting cell has a huge SPACE between a1
and b1 although I couldn't know whay?

What could be the problem?

Thanks,
Jo





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check = len(A1)
and B1 and C1 you will probably see a higher number than expected
you might try
=concatinate(trim(clean(A1)),...)
if there is a large discrepency in the length
note these won't get rid of all possible charaters but will most common ones.

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I am using CONCATENATE function to merge a1-b1-c1 cells.

Althoug it works fine the resulting cell has a huge SPACE between a1
and b1 although I couldn't know whay?

What could be the problem?

Thanks,
Jo


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The problem is probably that either A1 or B1 has a lot of space characters
in it. See what =LEN(A1) and =LEN(TRIM(A1)) say, and equivalently for B1.
You may also have non-printing characters, so try CLEAN instead of TRIM.
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I am using CONCATENATE function to merge a1-b1-c1 cells.


Althoug it works fine the resulting cell has a huge SPACE between a1
and b1 although I couldn't know whay?


What could be the problem?


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Thanks David, it worked.....

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