Hi,

I would like to be able to delete some characters from some cells.

I want to look for 4 spaces, then delete everything after (and
including) the 4 spaces.



This is probably staring me in the face

Thanks.


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=IF(ISERR(LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1)),A1,LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1))

considering your test is in A1.

Mangesh


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If you are looking for a VBA solution:

Sub ProcStrings()
Dim cell as Range, iloc as Long
for each cell in selection
iloc = instr(1,cell.Value, " ",vbTextCompare)
if iloc 1 then
cell.Value = Left(cell.Value,iloc-1)
else
cell.Value = Trim(cell.Value)
end if
Next
End sub

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Hi,

I would like to be able to delete some characters from some cells.

I want to look for 4 spaces, then delete everything after (and
including) the 4 spaces.



This is probably staring me in the face

Thanks.


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brilliant, thanks to both of you for your help.

I'll be going with the VB code.


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I've tried the VB code, but to no avail.
I now want to look for 2 consecutive spaces.
When they are found, I want to delete them & everything following
after.

I'd prefere to do this using code, rather than a cell formula - I'll
have formulae in the cells at a later stage.

any ideas?


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