The Trim function has a serious shortcoming: It handles only space characters?not all the usual white spaces such as tabs, carriage returns, and line feeds. Instead of the standard Trim function, use my TrimAll function, which handles all white spaces. In fact, you can extend it to trim off any character by editing the assignment to the ToEliminate string variable:
Public Function TrimAll(ToTrim As String) As String Static ToEliminate As String Dim Start As Long, Finish As Long ' Base condition test If Len(ToTrim) = 0 Then TrimAll = "" Exit Function End If ' Define the characters (once) that we want to trim off If Len(ToEliminate) = 0 Then ToEliminate = Chr(0) & Chr(8) & Chr(9) _ & Chr(10) & Chr(13) & Chr(32) End If ' Find the beginning of nonblank string by checking ' each char against a list of blank chars. Start = 1 Do While Start 1 If InStr(ToEliminate, Mid$(ToTrim, Finish, 1)) Then Finish = Finish - 1 Else Exit Do End If Loop If Start > Finish Then ' If the string is completely blank, ' Start will be greater than Finish. TrimAll = "" Exit Function Else ' Trim out the real contents TrimAll = Mid$(ToTrim, Start, Finish - Start + 1) End IfEnd Function