We have some users who are trying to do some data entry based off of excel spreadsheets, and when they check to see if a contact exists (for example), they copy the text from the spreadsheet and try to put it into the search bar. When they run the search, the search fails (most likely because the search engine isn't removing extra whitespace or something). 

Is there a module that we could use to fix the searching behavior? I'm also open to changing settings in the backend, but unless it's a system parameter, I'm pretty sure it's not there.