Hi Rich,

Try this

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

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HTH

Bob Phillips

"rich_j_h" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a column of text (postcodes/zipcodes) in the following formats
L3*1MT
or L12*3DE. What i want to do is have a second column that reads the
first
column value and removes the *data, leaving just the L3 or L12. How can i
do
this??

Thanks

Rich