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Default How to remove (delete) the first Character in all of the columns

Rather than importing both columns and deleting the first, it's easier to
tell it "Do not import column (skip)" for the first column.
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David Biddulph

"RichardSchollar" wrote in message
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An alternative would be to use DataTextToColumns, check Fixed Width
and set a column separator on the second character. You'd then need to
delete the first column, leaving the contents without the first
character.

Richard


wrote:

Hi,

How do you remove the first character from all of the columns in an
excel spreadsheet ?
In the column below - I would want to remove all of the leading 1's.
There are over 600 rows in the column.

Thanks !!

ex:

1dan
1bill
1dill
1sill
1dan
1bill
1dill
1sill