How to remove duplicate data (one of 100+ examples in my table: *Yunnan* & * Yunnan*)

HienFerber

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I have a data with a column full of duplicated values like the example in my title. I know we can use TRIM function to remove the space, but there are records like "South America" with a valid space so I can't apply TRIM for all. Also, there are so many examples like * Yunnan* that it is very tedious to fix the duplications one by one. There must be another way to address this problem? Thank you in advance for your help!
 

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"Also, there are so many examples like * Yunnan* that it is very tedious to fix the duplications one by one" --> I mean it is very tedious to use my judgement to fix each case of duplication.
 
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Why is TRIM an issue with a value like "South America"? After all, if you TRIM()
"South America"
"South America "
" South America"
"South    America"
etc, they all result in "South America" & you could then remove duplicates?
 
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Welcome to the MrExcel board!

Why is TRIM an issue with a value like "South America"? After all, if you TRIM()
"South America"
"South America "
" South America"
"South America"
etc, they all result in "South America" & you could then remove duplicates?

Oh I always thought TRIM is for removing all the spaces, not before and after. I even remember trying it in the past, but it must have been something else :oops::oops: :oops::oops: Thank you so much for your reply!
 
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Thank you so much for your reply!
You are welcome. :)
TRIM removes all leading & trailing spaces and for any 'internal' spaces reduces each to 1 space. So in the last example in post #3 I think there were 4 spaces between the two words and TRIM would reduce that to 1 space.
 
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