CLEAN

The CLEAN function accepts a text string and returns text that has been "cleaned" of line breaks and other non-printable characters. You can use CLEAN to strip non-printing characters and strip line breaks from text. For example, to clean text in cell A1: The CLEAN function accepts just one argument, text, which can be a text string or number. CLEAN removes the first 32 non-printable characters in the 7-bit ASCII code (values 0 through 31), if any are found, and returns the result. Text without these characters is returned unchanged. Note that CLEAN will remove line breaks if found. CLEAN will not remove extra space characters. To remove extra space, use the TRIM function. You can use CLEAN and TRIM together in one formula like this: The CLEAN function removes the first 32 (non-printable)