Formula for Displaying the First Character of a word

[Guest]

Is there a formula (or macros) that grabs the first character of a string of
text??

For example I have the following columns: Column A (Last name) Smith, Column
B (First name) Heather. In column C i want the first Character of Column B so
in this case it would be H.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

 

[Paul B]

savbci, =LEFT(B1,1)
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[Nick Hodge]

=LEFT(B1,1)

and copy down

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[Pete]

Use:

=LEFT(B1,1)

and copy down. This takes the left part of the string, the number of
characters being governed by the 1.

Hope this helps.

Pete

 

[Guest]

Left(Value, Number of characters)

Left(B1,1)