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Extract characters from a cell
I am trying to extra to extract certain characters from a cell. I know this should be easy, but I am having a lot of trouble figuring out how. Each cell has a different amount of characters, and I want the 1st character and the 5th character from the end. Here are a couple examples: dinosaur -- do minneapolis -- mp Please help, Thanks -- JBasch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JBasch's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=32329 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=520874 |
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Extract characters from a cell
JB,
=LEFT(A1,1) & MID(A1,LEN(A1)-4,1) HTH, Bernie MS Excel MVP "JBasch" wrote in message ... I am trying to extra to extract certain characters from a cell. I know this should be easy, but I am having a lot of trouble figuring out how. Each cell has a different amount of characters, and I want the 1st character and the 5th character from the end. Here are a couple examples: dinosaur -- do minneapolis -- mp Please help, Thanks -- JBasch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JBasch's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=32329 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=520874 |
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Extract characters from a cell
I think that this will do the trick:
=LEFT(A1,1)&LEFT(RIGHT(A1,5),1) -- Hope this helps, MarkN "JBasch" wrote: I am trying to extra to extract certain characters from a cell. I know this should be easy, but I am having a lot of trouble figuring out how. Each cell has a different amount of characters, and I want the 1st character and the 5th character from the end. Here are a couple examples: dinosaur -- do minneapolis -- mp Please help, Thanks -- JBasch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JBasch's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=32329 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=520874 |
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