From: Rajat on
I have a below requirement:
In one column i am having some words of different-different length, e.g some
70 charac., some 60,50,100,90 etc.

but i want to have all of them copy to new column but with length only 40
charc....rest of the charac i don't want....
plz help.

Thanks
in advance
Rajat
From: Luke M on
=LEFT(A2,40)

Copy down as needed

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Luke M
"Rajat" <Rajat(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a below requirement:
> In one column i am having some words of different-different length, e.g
> some
> 70 charac., some 60,50,100,90 etc.
>
> but i want to have all of them copy to new column but with length only 40
> charc....rest of the charac i don't want....
> plz help.
>
> Thanks
> in advance
> Rajat


From: מיכאל (מיקי) אבידן on
Check out Excels LEFT Function.
Micky


"Rajat" wrote:

> I have a below requirement:
> In one column i am having some words of different-different length, e.g some
> 70 charac., some 60,50,100,90 etc.
>
> but i want to have all of them copy to new column but with length only 40
> charc....rest of the charac i don't want....
> plz help.
>
> Thanks
> in advance
> Rajat