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Aug 22nd, 2012, 01:06 PM
#1
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[Excel] How do I remove a leading space
I have up to 20 6-digit numbers in one cell separated by spaces. Example 609134 60T134 60U134 373103
I'm extracting these from another in-house database and sometimes the 6 digit number is preceded by a space.
What I need to do is remove any leading or trailing spaces and ensure that the spaces between the numbers are single spaces.
After removing the leading space or spaces, I need to then copy just the first number to a cell, then the remaining to anther cell for that, I'm using:
RowCount = 2
Do While Range("J" & (RowCount)) <> ""
Range("K" & RowCount).Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=LEFT(RC[2],7)"
Range("L" & RowCount).Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=RIGHT(RC[1],LEN(RC[1])-8)"
RowCount = RowCount + 1
Loop
If the cell containing all the numbers has a leading zero, I end up with the first 5 digits of the number and the cell containing the rest of the numbers starts with the last digit of the first nuimber, like so:
60913 and 4 60T134 60U134 373103
Instead of
619134 and 60T134 60U134 373103
How do I resolve this?
Thank you
Dee
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Aug 22nd, 2012, 02:25 PM
#2
Re: [Excel] How do I remove a leading space
This code will turn all double spaces (or more) into single spaces:
Code:
Sub find_space()
result = True
While result = True
On Error Resume Next
result = Cells.Find(What:=" ", After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt:= _
xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False _
, SearchFormat:=False).Activate
If Err.Number = 91 Then Exit Sub 'didn't find double space(s)
If result = True Then
Cells.Replace What:=" ", Replacement:=" ", LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder _
:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, ReplaceFormat:=False
End If
Wend
End Sub
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Aug 23rd, 2012, 12:46 PM
#3
Lively Member
Re: [Excel] How do I remove a leading space
Take a look the TRIM function which removes leading and trailing spaces.
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