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remove characters from a text under a condition
yeah sure!!
cant believe i didnt know" thank so much! CLR wrote: =LEFT(A1,$F$1) and type whatever number of characters you want to keep in cell F1 Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 " wrote: Hello, I know if you want to remove the last X characters, you can do it by =left(A1,(len(A1)-X)) I want to remove any characters from a text that is longer than 35 characters. ie, I want to remove characters 36th and onwards. How can I do it? Thanks. Elaine. |
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remove characters from a text under a condition
Happy to help...........
Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 " wrote: yeah sure!! cant believe i didnt know" thank so much! CLR wrote: =LEFT(A1,$F$1) and type whatever number of characters you want to keep in cell F1 Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 " wrote: Hello, I know if you want to remove the last X characters, you can do it by =left(A1,(len(A1)-X)) I want to remove any characters from a text that is longer than 35 characters. ie, I want to remove characters 36th and onwards. How can I do it? Thanks. Elaine. |
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