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EXCEL CLEAN FUNCTION
Excel CLEAN Function Introduction
This method eliminates all non-printable characters from a string of text. Importing data from other databases may occasionally contain non-printable characters.
Description of Excel CLEAN Function
Syntax:
=CLEAN (text)
Parameter list:
- text – the text that has to be cleaned.
Step By Step Guide of CLEAN Function
Example :
Let’s look at several instances of the Excel CLEAN function and how to utilise it as a function can be entered in Microsoft Excel:
Key Points
- The CLEAN function removes the first 32 (non-printable) characters in the 7-bit
ASCII code (values 0 through 31) from text. Also in Unicode contains other nonprinting
characters (values 127, 129, 141, 143, 144, and 157). - For example if the A2 cell has this formula =CHAR(9)&“Monthly report”&CHAR(10)
there will be leading and trailing non-printable characters. So to remove that you can use
the CLEAN function like this, =CLEAN(A2). Before entering the CLEAN function just
check the length of the cell A2 using LEN function it will be 16 whereas the actual length
should be 14, additional 2 is the non printable characters.
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