Excel Formula: Extract first line of cell
In sometimes, there are several lines of contents in one Excel cell, if you just want to extract first line of contents into another cell, you can use a formula combined with LEFT function and SEARCH function.
Generic formula:
| LEFT(txt, SEARCH(CHAR(10), txt)-1) |
Arguments
| Txt: the cell contents you want to extract first line from. |
Remark
If there is blank or no char(10)(line break) in the text, it returns error value #VALUE!.
How this formula work
To extract first line from cell C3, please use below formula:
|
=LEFT(C3, SEARCH(CHAR(10), C3)-1) |
Press Enter key.
Explanation
CHAR(10): the line break.
SEARCH function finds the starting position of a character or text string in a given text. Here the formula SEARCH(CHAR(10), C3) finds the starting position of CHAR, returns 8.
LEFT function extracts text from left side of a text based on the given position. The formula =LEFT(C3, SEARCH(CHAR(10), C3)-1) can be seen as =LEFT(C3, 8-1), extracts 7 characters from left side of cell C3, returns “Combine”.
Sample File
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