You can remove leading, trailing, and extra spaces between characters and numbers in Excel using TRIM(), SUBSTITUTE() or Find and Replace.

2] Remove dashes in Excel by using the Find and Replace method This method does not work if a particular format is already applied to your cells, say SSN (Social Security Number) format.

One obvious way to clean up data in Excel is to use the Find and Replace function, but Excel does a whole lot more.

Finding and removing blank spaces and rows in Excel is easy and can be done by using the "Find & Select" feature. Here's how to delete blank rows in Excel on a Mac or PC.