deleting characters from beginning of call

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is it possible to highlight multiple cells and delete characters from the
beginning of them?
 
Hi,
do you have an example ?, if you want to delete let' say " you can do just
find and replace , find what ", replace with do not enter anything and clidk
 
fazz said:
is it possible to highlight multiple cells and delete characters from the
beginning of them?
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Can you give an example of some of the data? Is the data all the same
length? Do you always just want to removed 1 character from the front or
does that vary? There are formulas you can use to accomplish this but what
formula you use depends on what your data is like.
 
If the characters are the same in all cells just edit>replace

One cell at a time use a helper column with LEFT or RIGHT fumctions.

e.g. =RIGHT(A3,LEN(A3)-2) will remove first 2 characters from A3

With VBA you can probably delete from all cells at once.

Is the data to be removed consistent?

Do you have any sample data you could post?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 
Hello Tim - what i really need to be able to do is remove blank spaces at the
beginning of a cell
 
You can use the 'Trim' function for this. It removes blanks spaces from a
cell except for blank spaces between words.

- Insert a column next to the column that needs to be changed.
- Enter the formula =TRIM(put the cell you want trimmed here)
- Then copy the formula down the as far as your data goes.

It should trim the leading blank spaces. You then can 'copy' the column
with the trim formulas and 'paste special'....values over top of original
column. Then just deleted the column with the TRIM formulas.

As with all changes to your data in a spreadsheet, make a back up copy of
your sheet before making any mass changes like this.
 
Hi,
Let' say the column with blank is column A in another column enter

=trim(A1)

copy formula down, then do copy, go to column A, paste as values
 
thanks...it all works now..

Eduardo said:
Hi,
Let' say the column with blank is column A in another column enter

=trim(A1)

copy formula down, then do copy, go to column A, paste as values
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