This tutorial explains how to use a combination of the TRIM and the SUBSTITUTE function to add space after comma in a text string in Excel.
How to add space after comma in a string in Excel?
Supposing you have received a list containing names with no space after the comma as the below screenshot shown, you can apply the following formula to add space after the comma easily.
Generic formula
=TRIM[SUBSTITUTE[A1,",",", "]]
Arguments
A1: Represents the cell containing the text string you will add a space after the comma.
How to use this formula?
1. Select a blank cell to output the result. Here I select cell D3.
2. Enter the below formula into it and press the Enter key. And then drag its Fill Handle down to apply the formula to other cells.
=TRIM[SUBSTITUTE[B3,",",", "]]
Then you can see a space is added after each comma in specific cells as the above screenshot shown.
How this formula works?
=TRIM[SUBSTITUTE[B3,",",", "]]
- SUBSTITUTE[B3,",",", "]: The SUBSTITUTE function replaces a comma "," with ", " [there is a space after the comma] in "Doe,Jane"., and returns the result as "Doe, Jane".
- TRIM["Doe, Jane"]: The TRIM function removes all extract spaces from "Doe, Jane" and keeps only single space between words.
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