You can remove leading, trailing, and extra spaces between characters and numbers in Excel using TRIM(), SUBSTITUTE() or Find and Replace.

The ways to easily remove numbers from the left in Excel are not unique to numbers. You can use this same formula to remove other characters from a string of values in Excel.

Unfortunately, if you're using Excel 2019 or earlier, you won't be able to create your own functions using the methods described in this guide.

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