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Default formula needed

You're welcome!

Biff

"ah" wrote in message
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thanks a lot!
It works.

"T. Valko" wrote:

=IF(INDIRECT("Sheet1!E"&ROW())="","",LEFT(INDIRECT ("Sheet1!E"&ROW()),FIND("-",INDIRECT("Sheet1!E"&ROW()))-2))

Biff

"Teethless mama" wrote in
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=IF(Sheet1!E1="","",your formula)


"ah" wrote:

Hi ;
Thanks for your prompt response. It's really help after I change the
formula
to:

=(LEFT(INDIRECT("Sheet1!E"&ROW()),FIND("-"&"",INDIRECT("Sheet1!E"&ROW()))-2))

But, for those cell that are empty, it will returns a result of an
error
of:
#VALUE! to me. Is there any way for it to remain empty when the cell
that
I'm
refering to is empty?

Please advice.

Thanks a lot for your kind assistance.

"Teethless mama" wrote:

=LEFT(A1,FIND("-",A1)-2)


"ah" wrote:

Hi;

Can anyone advice me on how to extract the text value only?
The formula that I'm using currently works well if the text value
appears
before the space only:

=(LEFT(INDIRECT("Sheet1!A"&ROW()),FIND("
",INDIRECT("Sheet1!A"&ROW()))-1))

My requirements are to appear all the text value, and skip the
numeric and
symbol.
For example:
a) For ABC - 123, it should appears as ABC to me
b) For ABC DEF -098, it should appears as ABC DEF to me.

Thanks for your help in advance.