How to remove line breaks and hidden characters in Google Sheets
Replace in-cell line breaks with spaces and strip non-printing characters from imported data.
Replace line breaks with a space:
=SUBSTITUTE(A2, CHAR(10), " ")Any line break style:
=REGEXREPLACE(A2, "[\r\n]+", " ")Remove non-printing characters:
=CLEAN(A2)CleanRows → Clean → Remove line breaks & hidden characters also removes zero-width spaces that CLEAN misses.
Do it in two clicks inside Google Sheets. CleanRows highlights, deletes or moves duplicates by the columns you pick, ignores case/spaces/accents and compares two sheets. Free up to 1,000 rows. Get CleanRows →
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