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.
For the purposes of this demonstration, weâve called the column âTrim.â. To follow using our example above, download Excel Remove Spaces Formula Template 1.xlsx. Next, click in the first cell of the Trim column. On the Formulas tab, click the Text dropdown menu in the Functions group and select TRIM.After the dialog box appears, click on the cell that contains the text you would like to remove spaces from to complete the function. Click OK.opy the formula to the remaining cells in the helper column. Then copy the data to the data column as you did before using CTRL-C and Paste Options. Bonus Hint! You can also remove spaces using the Find/Replace feature in Excel. Click CTRL+F to open the Find dialog box, then click the Replace tab.