formula to extract partial content (text) of cell

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Any suggestions on how to extract partial content from cells? For example,
if a cell's content has "MICROSOFT", I would like to extract "MICROS". Is
this possible? Many thanks in advance for your help.
 
Assuming "Microsoft" is in cell A1, you could use the formula:

=left(A1,6)
 
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