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trailing spaces

ABC_Anonymous
7 - Meteor

Hello ,  I am trying to update sheets name from an excel file, but some of them have trailing spaces in it, i want to delete this spaces

thanks for your support

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binu_acs
21 - Polaris

@ABC_Anonymous use the Trim() function

eg: Trim([Field Name])

chuckleswk
11 - Bolide

You can use the Data Cleansing tool and select "Leading and Trailing Whitespace" in the Remove Unwanted Characters section.

 

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ABC_Anonymous
7 - Meteor

i want to Remove Leading and Trailing Whitespace in the sheet name and save it 

RJ_1988
6 - Meteoroid

Trim (Colname), Data Cleansing tool (Check Leading and Trailing Whitespaces), and in some cases use additionally a formula tool Replace(Colname,' ','')

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