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ovetteabejuela
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8 years ago
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Power Query | How to determine/remove this non-printable character

Hi,

 

How do I remove this character as I already tried Transform > Clean but it didn't help:

 

In Power Query, it shows like this:

 

If loaded into Excel, it looks like this:

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    ovetteabejuela,

    Right click on your column and select "Replace Values" to replace this character with space, then trim your column.



    Regards,
    Lydia

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    ovetteabejuela,

    Right click on your column and select "Replace Values" to replace this character with space, then trim your column.



    Regards,
    Lydia

    • ovetteabejuela's avatar
      ovetteabejuela
      Impactful Individual

      Yes, actually that worked, I just never thought PQ is capable of recognizing non-print characters in the Replace... method.

  • Hi,

    I have a similar problem, but the non-printable character is just behaving as a space ' ' when using find and replace. Trying to replace it just replaces spaces, leaving it unchanged. Is there any other way to find and replace these non-printable characters?