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Any Word experts around?
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It's probably easier in Word, especially if you're not very familiar with formulas.outtatune said:Any reason why you aren't doing this in Excel?0 -
If the original string is in cell A2 then this will remove the first ( and everything after it
=LEFT(A2,SEARCH("(",A2)-1)
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Just realised my earlier formula will result in an error if there's no ( in the cell.
If that's a possibility then this will fix that:
=IFERROR(LEFT(A2,SEARCH("(",A2)-1),A2)
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