Try this:

=LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1)

Finds where the first space is and then extracts the characters to the
left of that.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Jul 3, 11:23*am, Alectrical
wrote:
Thanks for your prompt reply, unfortunately, the number of characters can
vary between 2 and 6.



"Chiccada" wrote:
If the tag number is a constant number of characters.

=LEFT(cell,"number of characters you want to show")

Regards,

Rikki

"Alectrical" wrote:

Hi

I have a column that contains cells with tag numbers and description, I need
to extract the tag number and place this two cells to the right, ie I need to
copy the left most string within a cell.

Thanks
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