Quite often the issue is a non-breaking space -
Ron de Bruin has an excellent post on tips for cleaning data here
You can also remove the
CHAR(160)
- especially from Web text sources -that CLEAN
can't remove, so I would go a step further than this and try a formula
like this which replaces any non-breaking spaces with a standard one=TRIM(CLEAN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(160)," ")))
Ron de Bruin has an excellent post on tips for cleaning data here
You can also remove the
CHAR(160)
directly without a workaround formula by- Edit .... Replace your selected data,
- in Find What hold
ALT
and type0160
using the numeric keypad - Leave Replace With as blank and select Replace All
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