How to Remove Characters in Excel 2007. Microsoft Excel, part of the Office software suite, allows you to create business-oriented worksheets composed of columns, rows and cells. Within these ...

You can remove leading, trailing, and extra spaces between characters and numbers in Excel using TRIM(), SUBSTITUTE() or Find and Replace.

This post will show you how to remove the first or last few characters or certain position characters from the text in Microsoft Excel.

Excel's "Find and Replace" feature will search an entire spreadsheet or selected cells for your specified text. Excel also offer a "Replace" function.