How to remove trailing spaces from cells in Microsoft Excel?

Sometime we may add unwanted spaces in Excel cells, which are not easy to find out but affect sorting, calculating, or others. This article will introduce several methods to remove trailing spaces after text strings of cells in Microsoft Excel.

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Remove trailing spaces from cells in Excel with VBA

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Using the Trim function is easy to remove the trailing space in one cell, but time-consuming to remove trailing spaces in many cells. Here provides a macro to remove all trailing spaces of all cells in a selection.
Step 1: Select the range in which you want to remove trailing spaces from cells.
Step 2: Hold down the ALT + F11 keys, and it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
Step 3: Click Insert > Module, and paste the following macro in the Module Window.

Sub NoSpaces()
Dim c As Range
For Each c In Selection.Cells
c = Trim(c)
Next
End Sub

Step 4: Press the F5 key to run this macro. And all of the trailing spaces of the selection will be removed.

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Remove trailing spaces from cells in Excel with Kutools for Excel

Maybe you are not familiar with Microsoft Excel's Macros, and need time to study it. Please do not worry about it. The second method is provided by a third-party add-in, Kutools for Excel. Its Remove Spaces tool can help you remove trailing spaces from cells quickly.
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Step 1: Select the range in which you want to remove all trailing spaces from cells.
Step 2: Click the Kutools > Text Tools > Remove Spaces. See screenshot:

Step 3: In Remove Spaces dialog box, check the Trailing Spaces option in Spaces Type section. See screenshot:

Step 4: Click OK or Apply. And all the trailing spaces after the text string have been removed. See screenshot:
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