Hi

You will need to do the splitting into 2 cells.
With data in A1, enter in B1 =IF(LEN(A1<9,"",LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-8)
In C1 =IF(LEN(A(<9,"",RIGHT(A1,8))

If you want to delete the original column A, then first you would need
to copy the complete range of cells in B:C and Paste SpecialValues to
convert the cells to hard data in place of the formulae.

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Regards

Roger Govier


"ado1963" wrote
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Hi,

I have a column with a variable length single text string in each cell
between 9 & 36 characters. I want to consistently split or remove the
last (rightmost) 8 characters from this string, and leave the left
part
of the string ( like a reverse concatanation). Is there a function to
do
this?

Thanks in anticipation.


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