Unknown Space Character when Stripping Spaces in VBA

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I was writing a simple replace script to remove all spaces from a EXCEL Spreadsheet using the built in VBA editor. The code looked to be running fine on data that had been copied and pasted into a blank spreadsheet. However I noticed that some spaces remained. On copying one of these into Word and showing formatting characters and symbols I was given the characters that are seen on the top row of my image. The second row is a copy of the top row with those characters removed and a normal space entered to show the difference. Has anyone come across this character and if so what is it?

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Thanks

Harry

Posted 30-Jan-15 3:41am

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ZurdoDev 30-Jan-15 10:05am

You can check the character code in Excel using the Code function. You can also use the Clean function would should get rid of that.

CHill60 30-Jan-15 12:23pm

Looks like the non-breaking space special character (so word wrap will not break a line at that point unlike a normal space)

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CHill60 · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-30T06:27:00

Solution 1

Just checked and that is indeed a "non-breaking space" special character.

Unfortunately the CLEAN() function does not remove it (because it is printable as a space)

However

fixedText =substitute(dodgyText,char(160),"")

will tidy it up

Posted 30-Jan-15 6:27am

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hcompston 13-Feb-15 13:59pm

Hi Chill60, Sorry for the time took to get back to you. Thanks for that I could not find the answer anywhere. I will incorporate that into the clean up formula.

Thanks

Harry