Cleaning up raw data into a readable format | Excel forum

Hi Caron,

Thank you for the forum question.

Yes, as I said on the course when we talked about the clean and trim functions, I would never add columns to remove unprintable characters or unwanted spaces. I will use a VBA code:

The code I am using is the code below. It will not add formatting or change the structure of the data only clean the data from strange characters, double spaces, space before and after the cell content.


Sub TrimCleanData()
Dim rng As Range
Dim Area As Range


Set rng = Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants)



For Each Area In rng.Areas
Area.Value = Evaluate("IF(ROW(" & Area.Address & "),CLEAN(TRIM(" & Area.Address & ")))")
Next Area

End Sub


Kind regards

Jens Bonde
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