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Default How to cut off characters in a text column

Hello

In my Excel file there is a column with text data
where the data consist of lots of characters.
Only n characters in the column for each record
are really important.
The question is how to cut off (delete) all characters
from n+1 to the end automatically.

The exmple which shows one of records:
originally the column contains:
qwer tyuiopa csdf ghjkvlzxc vbnm qew gfiwbv lwbvci
the expected result:
qwer tyuiopa csdf ghjkvlzxc vb
where the number n is equal to 30.

How to do it automatically?
If I put the number n as a width of column it'll result
on the display but not in printing or MailMerge process.

I'd be very grateful for your help.

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