Q. How do the TRIMRANGE function and trim references in Excel work? A. Excel’s TRIMRANGE function and trim references help users quickly tidy up datasets. This makes for a cleaner, easier-to-follow, ...

TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER are a few more of my favorite Excel functions to clean messy spreadsheets. Excel's newer text ...

Next, tidy up the appearance of your text. Stick to clean, professional fonts like Calibri, Arial, or Times New Roman, and use consistent sizes—say 12pt for headers and 11pt for all other text. Align ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with messy Excel datasets, trying to clean up those pesky empty cells that throw off your calculations? It’s a small annoyance that can quickly snowball into ...

Microsoft Excel's Clean function strips nonprintable characters from cell text. These nonprintable characters constitute the first 32 characters of the 7-bit ASCI code, which houses the 128 text ...

However carefully you monitor the data you enter and import into Microsoft Excel, and the output of formulas and functions that produce new values, it's easy to wind up with cells that contain one or ...

Microsoft Excel 365 has introduced two new tools: the `TRIMRANGE` function and the `Trim References` operator. These features are designed to address common challenges in data management by ...