Excel Formula：Remove from right of text
Generally, you remove characters from left of text, but sometimes, you may need to remove from right, how can you deal with this problem? Actually, combining the LEFT and LEN functions to create a formula will do you a favor.
Generic formula:
| LEFT(text,LEN(text)-n) |
Arguments
| Filename: the text string or cell you want to remove from right. |
| N: the number of characters you want to remove from right of the text. |
How this formula work
Here are two columns, B3:C5, one contains the texts, and the other one contains the numbers of characters you need to remove from right of text, please use below formula in cell D3.
| =LEFT(B3,LEN(B3)-C3) |
Press Enter keys and drag fill handle from cell D3 to D5 for applying this formula.
Explanation
LEN function: the LEN function gets the number of characters of the text. Here it returns the length of cell B3.
LEFT function: the LEFT function extracts a given number of characters from left side of a text. Here the formula calculation steps will be shown as
=LEFT(B3,8-5)
=LEFT(B3,3)
Remark
If the argument text is a numeric value, you can add the VALUE function in the front of the formula to change the result to number.
| VALUE (LEFT(text,LEN(text)-n)) |
Sample File
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