Deleting 3 Text characters from the right

H

Helen

Anyone know how to trim a postcode of variable length, sometimes 5, 6 or 7
characters in length to remove the last 3 characters on the right hand side
of the cell? The postcode is displayed with any gaps or marks and the
separator will varying but it is always the last 3 characters that are
superfluous.
 
B

Bob Phillips

=left(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1)

is more resilient as I understand some postcodes only have a trailing 2.
 
D

Duke Carey

try

=LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-3)

To be sure that you don't get fouled up by leading and trailing spaces, you
can use

=LEFT(TRIM(A1),LEN(TRIM(A1))-3)
 
D

Don Guillett

try

Sub trimthree()
For Each c In Selection
c.Value = Left(c, Len(c) - 3)
Next
End Sub
 
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