How can I remove a non-printing character from a cell?

[jcnmilton]

I have a spreadsheet that was saved as a text file from HTML and opened with
excel. I then use Text to Columns to parse the information into cells.
However, some lines include a leading non-printing character that screws up
the Text to Columns by moving everything on that line over 1 space. How can
I remove only that leading non-printing character without changing the
spacing the rest of the line? I have tried using CLEAN - but all the spacing
is changed.

 

[Jim Thomlinson]

How about using mid, left and clean

=clean(left(a1, 1)) & mid(A1, 2, 255)

 

[Mifty]

Hi,

What about this macro - trimall by David McRitchie

Here's the link scroll down to trimall and there are also details of where
to put the macro etc
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall

Cheers