Is there a way to crop text in an Excel cell?

[Guest]

Need to find a way to crop text in an Excel column. Want to crop any text
past characters. Is there a way to do this?

 

[Guest]

I would try using the text function MID(text,start_num,num_chars) which can
"crop" any part of text you want.

 

[Guest]

I've used MID in programming years ago, but don't really know how to use it
in Excel. I'll look into it, thanks for the response.

Rob

 

[Guest]

I'll try this. I did the MID thing, but this doesn't work for what I am
trying to do (once I delete the original column of text of course my formula
doesn't work any more). What I'm doing is converting a tab deliminated file
to a csv file for internet upload. The csv file needs to be truncated to
characters per column.

Rob

 

[Stephen]

I'll try this. I did the MID thing, but this doesn't work for what I am
trying to do (once I delete the original column of text of course my
formula
doesn't work any more). What I'm doing is converting a tab deliminated
file
to a csv file for internet upload. The csv file needs to be truncated to
characters per column.

Rob

Select the results of your formulas and copy.
Without changing the selected area, use
Edit > Paste Special > Values
This replaces the formulas with their results.
You can then delete the original data.

 

[Guest]

Very cool, I will try this. Thanks!

Rob

Select the results of your formulas and copy.
Without changing the selected area, use
Edit > Paste Special > Values
This replaces the formulas with their results.
You can then delete the original data.