Pam,

If your string length can vary then a more general solution is

=LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-3)

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

"Pam" wrote in message
...
3 characters off the right side of a string and post the new results in a
new
cell. In other words, in cell A1 I have 123abc456. In B1, I tried to put
rtrim(A1,3) so I could produce 123abc.

I remember doing this in earlier versions of Excel. How can I do it in
2002?