is there a way to delete all characters to the right of a ":"?

  • Thread starter Thread starter gerry.lisa
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XL 2003
the number of characters to the left of the ":" will vary
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This will leave the colon and remove everything after it...

=LEFT(A20,FIND(":",A20))

This will remove the colon also...

=LEFT(A20,FIND(":",A20)-1)

Rick
 
This will leave the colon and remove everything after it...

=LEFT(A20,FIND(":",A20))

This will remove the colon also...

=LEFT(A20,FIND(":",A20)-1)

Rick
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Thank you!!!

....Lisa
 

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