gsmcellular wrote:
Hi,

I have a datasheet in excel and I would like to be able to seperate the
postcode index, the first letter or letters and copy them to another
field in my table.

for example:-

I would like to get SO45 1NQ and have SO in another field

but some postcodes only use one preceeding letter like:-

B1 2NQ and I would only require the letter B here in another field.

Does anyone know how I can easily do this, and then globally do it it
on my datasheet?

Cheers,

Graeme


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Hi Graeme,

If you have your postalcode in A1 then if you place this formula in B1
it should extract the letters infront of the first numeric value.

=LEFT(A1,MIN(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A1&{0,1, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}))-1)

Regards,
Bondi