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Delete 4 to 5 digits from left in a cell
If : only occurs once per cell, select the column, do datatext to columns,
select delimited and click next, select other and put : in the other box, click next, select the left column in the data preview (should be black) which is the default, then select do not import (skip) and click finish -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom http://nwexcelsolutions.com "saziz" wrote in message ... Hi, I got a sheet where I need to delete number followed by ':'. All these numbers are at the left in a cell like this--- 300: text.... few hundred rows. Any help please? Aziz -- saziz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ saziz's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=6350 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=536939 |
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Peo Sjoblom, Thank you! It worked perfectly. Regards :) Aziz -- saziz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ saziz's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=6350 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=536939 |
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Delete 4 to 5 digits from left in a cell
Toppers, That worked too. Now instead on the same sheet I am trying this on sheet2 giving this code. =TRIM(MID(Sheet1!B2,FIND(":",B2)+1,255)) It does not work. I don't know why. Any idea? Thanks Aziz -- saziz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ saziz's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=6350 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=536939 |
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Delete 4 to 5 digits from left in a cell
=TRIM(MID(Sheet2!A1,FIND(":",Sheet2!A1)+1,255)) "saziz" wrote: Toppers, That worked too. Now instead on the same sheet I am trying this on sheet2 giving this code. =TRIM(MID(Sheet1!B2,FIND(":",B2)+1,255)) It does not work. I don't know why. Any idea? Thanks Aziz -- saziz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ saziz's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=6350 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=536939 |
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