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How to extract all but first/last character from string in Excel?

In Excel, extracting the first n or last n characters may be easy for most Excel users, but if you want to extract all characters but the first or last character, how could you solve it? Here I tell some ways for quickly extracting all characters but firs/last character in Excel.

Extract all but first/last n characters from string with formula

Extract all but first/last n characters from string with Kutools for Excel


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Extract all but first one characters from string

Select a blank cell and type this formula =MID(A1, 2, LEN(A1)) (A1 is the cell you want to extract all but the first one character from, the number 2 is the character's order you want to begin extracting at, in this case, I extract all but first character so I extract character from the second character), press Enter button and fill the range you want. See the result screenshot:

Extract all but last one characters from string

Select a blank cell and type this formula =LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-1) (A1 is the cell you want to extract all but the last one character from, the number 1 is the number you do not want to extract from right of the string), press Enter button and fill the range you want. See the result screenshot:


arrow blue right bubble Extract all but first/last n characters from string with Kutools for Excel

If you have Kutools for Excel installed in your computer, you can use the Remove by Position feature to extract all characters but first or last n characters in Microsoft Excel.

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1. Select the range cells you want to extract, and click Kutools > Text Tools > Remove by Position. See screenshot:

2. In the Remove by Position dialog, specify the number you do not want to extract from the string in the Numbers text box, and check From left. See screenshot:

3. Click Ok or Apply, the first n characters are remove from each string.

If you want to extract all characters but last n characters, check From right check box in step 2.

Tip: Applying this feature will change your original data, you’d better copy them firstly.

Click here for more on Remove by Position.


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LOVE IT!!!! thanks you so much.
Really, really helpful.
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Buenísimo, muchas gracias por compartirlo!!!
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Thank you. This really helped me.
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i want to extract the first 2 digits and last 2 digits from the word Belconnen and add the number 35 at the end..what is the formula?
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Very thankful for the post. I was trying few hours with different kind of formulas when finally I found this post and resolved in seconds. And this Kutools is great tool but still no free version unfortunately.
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I want to extract all but the first word from a cell. I can extract the first word but I want the First word in one column and the rest of the string to appear in another column without the extracted word in it. Any help would be great! Thanks, Rick
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