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Remove first few characters
Hi All, I need to remove the first 9 chracters in every cell of column A of my spreadsheet. What's the best way to do that? My spreadsheet is currently huge, lots of data, graphs, functions and defined names, all of which make it quite slow to load and manipulate. I would like to avoid if possible making this too much worse. Not sure if that will change the suggested best solution to my question above. All help is much appreciated -- coa01gsb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ coa01gsb's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=31214 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=525610 |
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Remove first few characters
For safety reasons make a backup copy!
Enter this formula in the first line of an empty helper column: =MID(A1,10,255) Fill down as necessary! Select the helper column/Copy Select column A/pastespecial-values Clear helper column! Regards, Stefi €˛coa01gsb€¯ ezt Ć*rta: Hi All, I need to remove the first 9 chracters in every cell of column A of my spreadsheet. What's the best way to do that? My spreadsheet is currently huge, lots of data, graphs, functions and defined names, all of which make it quite slow to load and manipulate. I would like to avoid if possible making this too much worse. Not sure if that will change the suggested best solution to my question above. All help is much appreciated -- coa01gsb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ coa01gsb's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=31214 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=525610 |
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:35:37 -0600, coa01gsb
wrote: Hi All, I need to remove the first 9 chracters in every cell of column A of my spreadsheet. What's the best way to do that? My spreadsheet is currently huge, lots of data, graphs, functions and defined names, all of which make it quite slow to load and manipulate. I would like to avoid if possible making this too much worse. Not sure if that will change the suggested best solution to my question above. All help is much appreciated Backup your workbook first! In a helper column, enter the formula: =REPLACE(A1,1,9,"") Copy/Drag down as far as required. Then, Select the cells in the helper column Edit/Copy Select A1 Edit/Paste Special Values Then Delete Helper Column. --ron |
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An alternative formula in the helper column is:
=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-9) As Ron suggests, you can then: Copy/Drag down as far as required. Then, Select the cells in the helper column Edit/Copy Select A1 Edit/Paste Special Values Then Delete Helper Column. Hope this helps. Pete |
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A manual way to do this is to use the Text to Columns command in the Data
Menu. Work on a backup to get used to the method. Select the single column range with the text you wish to change. Data\Text to Columns Fixed Width, Next Create a line at the break point you need, Next For Column 1 Skip For Column 2 General You can select a different destination, The default is to overwrite. Finish. This should leave you with the Data modifed as required and no additional formulae hth RES |
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Cheers people, plenty of ideas there. -- coa01gsb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ coa01gsb's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=31214 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=525610 |
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