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cHARACTERS BEFORE THE SPACE
Hi, I need a function which does the following: F1 FRED F23 GHTYRFFFF G1234 AD becomes: F1 F23 G1234 i.e Returns the characters before the space, many thanks -- T De Villiers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ T De Villiers's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26479 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=502479 |
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cHARACTERS BEFORE THE SPACE
=LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1,1)-1)
Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "T De Villiers" wrote: Hi, I need a function which does the following: F1 FRED F23 GHTYRFFFF G1234 AD becomes: F1 F23 G1234 i.e Returns the characters before the space, many thanks -- T De Villiers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ T De Villiers's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26479 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=502479 |
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Try =LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1)
-- Bernard V Liengme www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "T De Villiers" wrote in message news:T.De.Villiers.21u70c_1137598505.5848@excelfor um-nospam.com... Hi, I need a function which does the following: F1 FRED F23 GHTYRFFFF G1234 AD becomes: F1 F23 G1234 i.e Returns the characters before the space, many thanks -- T De Villiers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ T De Villiers's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26479 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=502479 |
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cHARACTERS BEFORE THE SPACE
DataText to ColumnsDelimited by spaceNext.
Choose "do not import" after selecting column 2. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:34:32 -0600, T De Villiers wrote: Hi, I need a function which does the following: F1 FRED F23 GHTYRFFFF G1234 AD becomes: F1 F23 G1234 i.e Returns the characters before the space, many thanks |
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