How to remove all preceding spaces or invalid characters

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June 8, 2019
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808Hawaii

Level 2

click on the line item, Press HOME to goto the beginning of the text and END to the end of the text. Any spaces should be deleted with either the back space (end) or delete key. (home)

ste_n_hol4ttax

Level 2

I found my street address and city (in some 1099s downloaded from broker) was reported as having

preceeding spaces or invalid characters that made the return unable to be e-filed. This just showed up at time of attempting to efile my return. I found pressing the Delete key and retyping the street address or city - whichever the current error message was complaining about - fixed the problem. Attempting to clear the supposed bad line of my address on the 1099 BY USING BACKSPACE did not clear up the problem. Also the supposed bad "efile-able data" always looked correct on the 1099 form before I pressed keyboard Delete key and typed the street address or city name again.

Restarting TurboTax (Premier 2022) and rebooting my desktop PC did not clear the problem.

This only showed up on 1099s that were downloaded/imported and only on some of the 1099s. Root cause in the imported 1099s? TurboTax program bug? Both?