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Help removing "space" character (question updated)
I am copying data from the web that's in a spreadsheet format and which can
be dropped straight into Excel. The information is yearly values that are displayed for each month of the year. I have two problems: 1. The data is "backward" - on the sheet I want to input this data, it starts in year 2004 and moves month by month down the spreadsheet, ending with 2008. The data on the website *begins* 12/08 and moves down the page so that the earliest data is at the bottom rather than the top. (I resolved this by putting the data in the order I want it and doing a vlookup against the data I'm pasting from the web). 2. Second issue is that there is an extra space in the monthly information at the end of the data. Conseqeuently, when I paste the vlookup result info (I also copy that info and paste again in the sheet as a value . . .) each cell that has data has a space at the end of it. I can go into each one and remove the space but the "find and replace" feature won't remove the space universally. I have about 150 companies for which I have to update 2006, 2007 and 2008 data by month so being able to copy from the site, do a tiny bit of manipulation and pasting the result into my ultimate spreadhseet would be great and a real time saver (and much faster than hand-keying all the info!). Thanks for any ideas you have on making this process faster and more efficient. mm |
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