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burkeam1113

EXCEL: Truncating Text Fields to allow Vlookup searches to find da
 
Currently - have data set that has extra blank spaces at the end of the
fields - of varying length - what formula do you use to truncate the text
fields to show only valid characters?

Please don't tell me it's "truncate".
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burkeam1113

Ron Rosenfeld

EXCEL: Truncating Text Fields to allow Vlookup searches to find da
 
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:54:02 -0700, burkeam1113
wrote:

Currently - have data set that has extra blank spaces at the end of the
fields - of varying length - what formula do you use to truncate the text
fields to show only valid characters?

Please don't tell me it's "truncate".



TRIM
--ron


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