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You may have Non-Breaking Spaces in the cell. You can check with the Code() function
Look here for code to remove them:

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall

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| Is there a way to search and replace within a column where there are 2
| spaces present? When I search for " " (no quotes) it says cannot be found.
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| Thanks!
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BTW, the TRIM() function reduces multiple spaces to single ones (and removes leading and trailing spaces)

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"Niek Otten" wrote in message ...
| You may have Non-Breaking Spaces in the cell. You can check with the Code() function
| Look here for code to remove them:
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| http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall
|
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| Kind regards,
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| Niek Otten
| Microsoft MVP - Excel
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| "mgm" wrote in message ...
|| Is there a way to search and replace within a column where there are 2
|| spaces present? When I search for " " (no quotes) it says cannot be found.
||
|| Thanks!
|| mgm
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