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Luke M Luke M is offline
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Default extract word before /

How about this?

=LEFT(A2,FIND("/",A2)-1)
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"Wanna Learn" wrote:

Hello I want to extract the word or words before the " /" example the
cell reads University of Texas/TX so I need to extract University of Texas .
I tried right and left functions but it does not work. the cells always has
the name of the university then / initials of the state thanks in advance