At first instance, you may wonder why we would need to remove spaces in Excel. If you have unnecessary spaces it may prevent working of some functions, filtering etc. You may notice leading and double spaces, but it is very difficult to identify spaces as you cannot see it. You can only see it if you highlight the cell content when editing. It will be an extremely difficult task to remove the spaces manually when you have a large data set. So, we are here explaining Excel functions to easily remove spaces.