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Trim cells to a character
I have a colums of thousands of words. How do remove all the characters from
the right including the / sign. The words are of varying length. aτaimar/KXYZfp |
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Trim cells to a character
Mike wrote:
I have a colums of thousands of words. How do remove all the characters from the right including the / sign. The words are of varying length. aτaimar/KXYZfp Mike Try the LEFT function with the FIND function. Use a helper column, copy, paste special, values =LEFT(A1,FIND("/",A1)-1) Beege |
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Trim cells to a character
Try something like
=+MID(A1,1,FIND("/",A1)-1) Mike wrote: I have a colums of thousands of words. How do remove all the characters from the right including the / sign. The words are of varying length. aτaimar/KXYZfp |
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Trim cells to a character
This is NOT lotus. Lose the +
and LEFT would have been better here. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Rowland" wrote in message ... Try something like =+MID(A1,1,FIND("/",A1)-1) Mike wrote: I have a colums of thousands of words. How do remove all the characters from the right including the / sign. The words are of varying length. a?aimar/KXYZfp |
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