Lightly tested, this should work ok ..
The reference suburbs in B1:B165 are assumed fully populated
With your source addresses in A1 down,
Put this in C1, normal ENTER to confirm will do:
=IF(SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH($B$1:$B$165,A1)))0,TRIM(SUBSTITUT E(A1,INDEX($B$1:$B$165,MATCH(TRUE,INDEX(ISNUMBER(S EARCH($B$1:$B$165,A1)),),0)),"")),"")
Copy C1 down to the last row of source data in col A. Col C should return
the desired cleansed results. Success? wave it here ..
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Max
Singapore

"Father John" wrote in message
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I have a spreadsheet that has a complete address in one column (a)
In column (b) (B1:B165) I have the name of the suburbs I wish to remove
from col (a)

Start
Col (A)
15 Smith Street Blacktown

Col (B7) contains the suburb Blacktown (I have 165 suburbs in this column)

I want to remove that same data from (A) so I just end up with 15 Smith
Street.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance - Stephen