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Clean your spreadsheet
without touching the data.

Remove hidden characters, unusual spaces, and unwanted whitespace from text cells in an Excel workbook. Processing happens in your browser.

Sheet Cleaner

Choose an Excel workbook Drop an .xlsx or .xls file here, or click to browse.

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Trim text cells
Remove spaces, tabs, and line breaks at the beginning and end of text. Normalise unusual spaces
Replace non-breaking spaces and other Unicode spaces with normal spaces. Remove hidden characters
Remove zero-width spaces, byte-order marks, soft hyphens, and control characters. Collapse repeated spaces
Change text such as North West to North West.

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Your workbook is processed locally in this browser tab and is not uploaded by this page. Only normal text cells are cleaned; formula cells, numbers, and dates are skipped. Keep your original workbook: exporting browser-generated Excel files may not preserve advanced features such as macros, charts, comments, validation rules, and some formatting.

Clean your spreadsheetwithout touching the data.

Sheet Cleaner

Clean your spreadsheet
without touching the data.