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Im making some ebay listings so I need to make all titles 55 characters
or less. How Would one go about this? I cant seem to find the Truncate
function in excel is there even one?


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How about: =RIGHT(A1,55)

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Im making some ebay listings so I need to make all titles 55 characters
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function in excel is there even one?


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Opps! correction:

=LEFT(A1,55)

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How about: =RIGHT(A1,55)

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You could try a helper column which had

=Left(A1,55)


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