I can't seem to use RTRIM or LTRIM in Excel 2002. I want to trim.
 

3 characters off the right side of a string and post the new results in a new
cell. In other words, in cell A1 I have 123abc456. In B1, I tried to put
rtrim(A1,3) so I could produce 123abc.

I remember doing this in earlier versions of Excel. How can I do it in 2002?

"Pam" wrote in message
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3 characters off the right side of a string and post the new results in a
new
cell. In other words, in cell A1 I have 123abc456. In B1, I tried to put
rtrim(A1,3) so I could produce 123abc.

I remember doing this in earlier versions of Excel. How can I do it in
2002?

TRIM removes all spaces from text except for single spaces between words.
LEFT(A1,6) will achieve your desired result.

Pam,

If your string length can vary then a more general solution is

=LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-3)

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

"Pam" wrote in message
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3 characters off the right side of a string and post the new results in a
new
cell. In other words, in cell A1 I have 123abc456. In B1, I tried to put
rtrim(A1,3) so I could produce 123abc.

I remember doing this in earlier versions of Excel. How can I do it in
2002?

Pam

LTRIM and RTRIM are functions used in VBA, not a worksheet function. They(or
TRIM) are not the Function you want.

See other answers to your post.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:11:03 -0800, Pam wrote:

3 characters off the right side of a string and post the new results in a new
cell. In other words, in cell A1 I have 123abc456. In B1, I tried to put
rtrim(A1,3) so I could produce 123abc.

I remember doing this in earlier versions of Excel. How can I do it in 2002?