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

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Jason
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"rich_j_h" wrote:

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

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