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Clean cell for unwanted and dynamic part
Hi,
I have a datasheet with a lot of numbers and in each celle there is af number and a number with in a (). Does anyone know of a clever way to clean all the numbers in the () togehter with the () leaving only the number outside the () in the cell?
Eg. Cell A1: "256 (465)" and i want it to be "256"
thank you :)
=LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1)
this will give you everything up to the first " " (space). If there isn't always a space you can swap it for =SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(A1,FIND("(",A1)-1)," ","")
Which will give you everything up to the first ( and then remove any blank spaces which will stop you accidently getting text back rather than numbers.
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=LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1)
this will give you everything up to the first " " (space). If there isn't always a space you can swap it for =SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(A1,FIND("(",A1)-1)," ","")
Which will give you everything up to the first ( and then remove any blank spaces which will stop you accidently getting text back rather than numbers.
- Thank you :)
