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Jacob Skaria Jacob Skaria is offline
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Default extracting substring

Try

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

OR

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

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Jacob


"Rajesh" wrote:

Hi,

Please find the follwoing data
abcd efg [R51K]
abc efg[R52E]
abcd efghij [R31K]

From this i need the data without [Rxxx].

please suggest how to do this
Thanks