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    Problems replacing blanks with nothing

    Hi all,

    I have a a column with data. Some of the cells are visually numbers in a text format, like 4 684,252. Others are values. Usually i use replace under Find & Select. Find " " and replace with "". That dosent work in this file and i cant figure out why. Anybody who has a solution? The file contains about 25 K of rows so it canīt be done manually.

    Really hope someone can help me with this.

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    Re: Problems replacing blanks with nothing

    go to your first blank one (row 13) and copy that space using ctrl c, then past that into the find and leave the replace blank. Then hit replace all and that should do it for you.
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    Re: Problems replacing blanks with nothing

    You can use formula to remove spaces

    =--SUBSTITUTE(A2," ","")
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    Re: Problems replacing blanks with nothing

    Thank you guys. It worked fine!

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    Re: Problems replacing blanks with nothing

    Thank you for you feedback!

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