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Default Postcode Area extract first alpha letters

Hi,
I have a list of postcodes and would like to have only the first letters,
whether this is 2 or 1 letter.
I have been able to extract the beginning of a postcode with
=LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1)
but now want to split it further and just have the letters not the numbers.
Eg:
"B1" return "B"
"SW12" return "SW"
"M23" return "M"
"NN9" return "NN" etc.
is there something that extracts alpha characters?

 
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