Open your spreadsheet in Excel and locate the cells containing the whitespace that needs to be removed. Use the Trim function to remove whitespace created from normal spaces.

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

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...