albatross. 1  A metaphor for a dead weight or burden that one must carry, especially when the burden is not a literal one but a stigma of some kind that one cannot easily discard or throw off. The name comes from a story about a sailor who killed an albatross that was following his ship, an act thought to bring bad luck upon the ship.
Run the Remove Characters tool by clicking on its icon under the Ablebits Data tab in Excel. To remove characters select the range with the cells that contain values you want to delete. Expand the group Remove characters or substrings. You can select one of three radio buttons according to your task.
The Trim function in Microsoft Excel can remove all spaces from text except for single spaces between words. Step 1: Enter the formula =TRIM (A1) in the adjacent cell C1 and press the Enter key. Step 2: Select cell C1 and drag the fill handle down to the range cell that you want to remove the leading space. Then you can see all cell content are extracted with all leading spaces removed.