Removes the nonprintable characters CHAR(9) and CHAR(10) from the text string in cell A2. Fortunately their website typically show the a macro/formula solution. I've never touched it but I feel like I've been to their website hundreds of times - they seem to have a built-in tool or UDF for almost every problem I google. If you need to, you can adjust the column widths to see all the data. Hi r/Excel, Curious if there are any ExtendOffice / Kutools users here, and what their thoughts are on the add-in. For formulas to show results, select them, press F2, and then press Enter. Any worksheet information from which you want to remove nonprintable characters.Ĭopy the example data in the following table, and paste it in cell A1 of a new Excel worksheet. The CLEAN function syntax has the following arguments:

For an example of how to remove these additional nonprinting characters from text, see Top ten ways to clean your data. If a part of the formula is in parentheses, that part will be calculated first. Excel uses a default order in which calculations occur. To edit a formula, click in the formula bar and change the formula. By itself, the CLEAN function does not remove these additional nonprinting characters. When you select a cell, Excel shows the value or formula of the cell in the formula bar. In the Unicode character set, there are additional nonprinting characters (values 127, 129, 141, 143, 144, and 157). Important: The CLEAN function was designed to remove the first 32 nonprinting characters in the 7-bit ASCII code (values 0 through 31) from text.

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