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student1231
Apr 03, 2024Copper Contributor
Help Needed
I am looking for help with extracting certain parts of a cell. Some example cells appear as the following: AUS177-4M Canada551-3W ENG342-10Mo The first set of text is a location. The first s...
Riny_van_Eekelen
Apr 03, 2024Platinum Contributor
student1231 I prefer to perform such tasks with Power Query. It's no more than two steps of splitting. The first split is by the "-". The second split is where the text in the now 2nd column changes from a digit (i.e. a number) to a non-digit (i.e. a letter).
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- student1231Apr 03, 2024Copper Contributor
- Riny_van_EekelenApr 03, 2024Platinum Contributor
student1231 I guess so. What Excel version are you using?
- student1231Apr 03, 2024Copper ContributorVersion 16.83