delete first 4 letters in a cell

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Wanna Learn

Hello I want to delete the first four characters in a cell example MRS.
Mary Johnson I want to delete MRS. I tried "left, and mid function but I
must be doing something wrong. Thanks for your help
 
R

Ron Rosenfeld

Hello I want to delete the first four characters in a cell example MRS.
Mary Johnson I want to delete MRS. I tried "left, and mid function but I
must be doing something wrong. Thanks for your help
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If you really just want to delete the first four characters, then:

=REPLACE(A1,1,4,"")

If you also want to delete any leading spaces, left over, as there would be
with your example, then:

=trim(REPLACE(A1,1,4,""))

If you want to delete everything up to and including the first space (i.e. the
first word), then:

=MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,255)

If you only want to delete the first word if it is one of several words, then
it gets more complicated.
--ron
 
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