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How to delete string after nth character in Excel?

In some cases, you may want to remove all strings after nth character from cells in Excel. If you have few of cells needed to remove strings after nth character, you can delete them manually. However, if there are hundreds of cells, that must be tired to delete strings one by one. Now this tutorial tells you the quick ways to remove strings after nth character in Excel, please read the below details.

Remove all string after nth character with formula

Remove string in specific position by Remove by Position

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You can use below formula to remove all string after nth character.

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Take instance, you want to delete all strings after the third character, and select a cell and type this formula =LEFT(A1,3) into it, press Enter key and drag the autofill handle down to cells.

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Tip: In above formula, you can change 3 to any nth as you need. For example, if you want to remove strings after 4th character, use this formula =LEFT(A1,4).

arrow blue right bubble Remove string in specific position by Remove by Position

If you have Kutools for Excel, you can use the Remove by Position to quickly remove strings after nth character, and also can specify how many characters you will remove.

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After free installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:

1. Select the data range and click Kutools > Text > Remove by Position. See screenshot:

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2. In the Remove by Position dialog, type 999 into Numbers textbox, and the check Specify and type 4 into following textbox. You can see the results shown on the preview pane.

Tip: If you want to remove string after nth character, you just need to type n + 1 into the Specify textbox.

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3. Then click Ok or Apply. The string after 3rd has been removed from each cell.

Note: If you just want to remove 3 characters after 3rd character of the string, you can type 3 into Numbers textbox, and check Specify and type 4 into it.

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sunil
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data UPI-2080-SHN ANNY SMI-KKBK-XXXXXX-MB: SOCIETY MAINTENANCE MARCH 22 0000####### 01/03/22
Output :- SHN ANNY SMI
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Hi, sunil, here is a code may help you. 
Sub extractText()
    Dim xSplit, xStr As String
    Dim xPos As Integer
    Dim xArr As Variant
    Dim xRng, xSetRng As Range
    On Error Resume Next
    Set xRng = Application.InputBox("Select the cell you want to extract：", "Kutools for Excel", , , , , , 8)
    xSplit = Application.InputBox("Type the delimiter：", "Kutools for Excel", , , , , , 2)
    xPos = Application.InputBox("Type the nth delimiter：", "Kutools for Excel", , , , , , 1)
    Set xSetRng = Application.InputBox("Select a cell to place result：", "Kutools for Excel", , , , , , 8)
    xArr = Split(xRng.Text, xSplit)
    xSetRng.Value = xSplit + xArr(xPos)
End Sub

Copy and paste above code to the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, and run the code, in first dialog, choose the cell that you use to extract, in second dialog, type the delimiter, here in your case is -, in third dialog, type the nth delimiter, here in your case, you extract the string after second -, type 2 into this dialog, in last dialog, choose the cell you place the extracted result.
Hope it do favor on you.
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data :- UPI-205080-SWN AHONY SI-KKBK-XXXXXX-MB: SOCIETY MAINTENANCE MARCH 22 000080 01/03/22
Output needed as "SWN AHONY SI"
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These are very clever tricks! Thank you so much.
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