=LEFT(A1,FIND("%",A1))

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"Seth" wrote in message ...
|I have a spread sheet that has (example) numbers in a cell 45% (5/11) in a
| cell or 60% (60/100) in a cell. I have hundreds of cells each with different
| series of numbers all with a 1-2 or 3 diget % and two numbers in (). I want
| to delete the number in parenthesis and the parenthesis. I can do it cell by
| cell but I figure that there should be some way to reformat the cells to do
| it in mass