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December 7th, 2005, 12:31 PM
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Strip out text copy and paste?
Hello all,
I have some text in cells A2 - A646 as below Smith, John (LD) Gummerson, Liz (SDLP) The lengths of names are variable but first name is always seperated by a comma and second name is followed by a space. What I need to do, if possible, is to copy the first name into cell H2 and second name into cell I2 Is there any straightforward way of doing this? Many thanks in advance Mark www.familyfund.org.uk -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...l-new/200512/1 
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December 7th, 2005, 01:10 PM
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Strip out text copy and paste?
One way:
If the first name is always followed by a left paren, as well: H2: =TRIM(MID(LEFT(A2,FIND("(",A2)-1),FIND(",",A2)+1,255)) I2: =LEFT(A2,FIND(",",A2)-1) In article 587a46a3fb6a8@uwe, "Mark Y via OfficeKB.com" u12713@uwe wrote: Hello all, I have some text in cells A2 - A646 as below Smith, John (LD) Gummerson, Liz (SDLP) The lengths of names are variable but first name is always seperated by a comma and second name is followed by a space. What I need to do, if possible, is to copy the first name into cell H2 and second name into cell I2 Is there any straightforward way of doing this? Many thanks in advance Mark www.familyfund.org.uk
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December 7th, 2005, 01:16 PM
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WOW!!
Thats exactly what I needed and such a speedy reply! As per usual this forum comes up number 1 again, Thanks again!! Mark :-) -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...l-new/200512/1
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