Remove specific text from a column of cells

[Guest]

Example:

Apple and Pear Oct 2,2006
Orange and Lime Oct 30,2006
Pear and Pineapple Oct 6, 2006

I want to remove the date at the end of each cell. Can someone help? Thank
you.

 

[Guest]

=LEFT(A1,FIND("Oct",A1,1)-2) will remove the date for October data.

 

[Don Guillett]

One TOO simple way would be to have a helper column
=left(a2,len(a2)-11)
Leaves a space on the single digit but probably doesn't matter.

 

[Biff]

Based on your samples the date appears after the 3rd space. If that's
consistent within your data:

=LEFT(A1,FIND("~",SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","~",3))-1)

Biff

 

[Guest]

Try Edit, Replace, and in Find What type in Oct * Then click on Replace
or Replace All at the bottom.

Carole O

 

[Guest]

Thank you all for your help! It works!

 

[Don Guillett]

The archives want to know what you used

 

[Guest]

My previous posting will only remove Oct data. If the text has an aribtrary
number of words and the date is always the last three words in the cell then
this little UDF will remove then:

Function sweepea(s As String) As String
ss = Split(s, " ")
For i = 0 To UBound(ss) - 3
sweepea = sweepea & ss(i) & " "
Next
End Function