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Daniel Kvistgaard
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Aug 10, 2018
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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 ...
  • Philip West's avatar
    Aug 10, 2018

    =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.