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Now that you are fully aware of the problem, it's time to work out a solution.

So, you may be racking your brain trying to figure out why an obviously correct formula cannot match two seemingly identical entries. The point is that two cells containing the same text with and without spaces, even if it's as little as a single space character, are deemed different values. It wouldn't be much of a problem if extra spaces were just lying around, but they mess up your formulas. But there is no way to spot trailing spaces, those that keep out of sight at the end of cells. An attentive user can occasionally catch a leading space hiding before the text or a few extra spaces between words. What's the biggest problem with spaces? They are often invisible to the human eye. You will learn how to delete leading and trailing spaces in a cell, eliminate extra spaces between words, get rid of non-breaking white space and non-printing characters. The space after \1 replaces the multiple spaces found in the second part of the wildcard string with a single space.The tutorial explains how to remove blank spaces in Excel using formulas and the Text Toolkit tool.In other words, the letter found is replaced with itself, so no change apparently occurs. \1 replaces the first part of the wildcard string with itself.Again, this section is surrounded by parentheses to define it as a separate section. This string defines the first section of the Find. Because you are using wildcards, you need to surround the text you want to find in parentheses. () looks for any letters, upper (A-Z) or lower case (a-z).If you want to check each instance before replacing it, just click Replace then Find Next, Replace until you’ve dealt with them all. If the Find is successful and you are confident you’re not going to mess anything up, click Replace All. Click Find Next to find the next instance of multiple spaces between words.