remove characters from a text under a condition

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elaine216

Hello,

I know if you want to remove the last X characters, you can do it by

=left(A1,(len(A1)-X))


I want to remove any characters from a text that is longer than 35
characters.
ie, I want to remove characters 36th and onwards.

How can I do it?

Thanks.
Elaine.
 
D

David Biddulph

Hello,

I know if you want to remove the last X characters, you can do it by

=left(A1,(len(A1)-X))

I want to remove any characters from a text that is longer than 35
characters.
ie, I want to remove characters 36th and onwards.

How can I do it?
Click to expand...

=LEFT(A1,35)

Did you look at Excel's help to see what the LEFT function does?
 
C

CLR

=LEFT(A1,$F$1) and type whatever number of characters you want to keep in
cell F1

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3
 

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