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Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Tutorial » Text functions » SUBSTITUTE   22. 21. 8. =IF(LEFT(A1,1)=" ",SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","",1), A1): If a space is found in the first position, substitute it with an empty string; otherwise, just return the original string. Input the formula: =IF(LEFT(A1,1)=" ",SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","",1), A1) 22. 21. SUBSTITUTE 22. 21. 1.  SUBSTITUTE(text,old_text,new_text,instance_num) substitutes new text for old text in a text string 22. 21. 2.  =SUBSTITUTE(A3, "1", "2", 1) 22. 21. 3.  =SUBSTITUTE("a b c f", " ",","): all spaces are replaced with commas. 22. 21. 4.  =SUBSTITUTE("a b c d", " ",",",1): the first space is replaced with a comma 22. 21. 5.  =SUBSTITUTE("a b c d", " ",",",3): the third space is replaced with a comma 22. 21. 6.  =SUBSTITUTE("two two.","two", "three"): both occurrences of two are replaced with three. 22. 21. 7.  =SUBSTITUTE("two two .","two", "three",2): only the second occurrence of two is replaced with three. 22. 21. 8.  =IF(LEFT(A1,1)=" ",SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","",1), A1): If a space is found in the first position, substitute it with an empty string; otherwise, just return the original string. 22. 21. 9.  Use the SUBSTITUTE function to remove all spaces from a string 22. 21. 10.  Strips space, hyphen, colon, asterisk, underscore, left parenthesis, and right parenthesis 22. 21. 11.  Returns the number of words

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