Method 4 – Delete Multiple Specific Letters from Cell with Nested SUBSTITUTE Function Steps: Replace the formula for D5 with the following: =SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(C5,"W",""),"E","") Press Enter. This replaces all W and E (or any other text that you selected) with a null string (...
LEFT(B5, SEARCH(“,”, B5) – 1):This uses theLEFTfunction to take the text from cellB5but only up to the character just before the comma, determined by the result of theSEARCH To remove text before commas: In cellC5, pressEnterafter inserting the formula below: =TRIM(RIGHT(B5, LEN...
For example, to delete the substring "mailto:" from cell A2, the formula is: =SUBSTITUTE(A2, "mailto:", "") This formula goes to B2, and then you drag it down across as many rows as needed: How to remove Nth instance of a specific character In situation when you want to delete a...
1.For example, we have “Apple” in cell A1,and we want to remove it 2.Select the text and fromtheabove bar,use CTRL+A 3.And then use backspace to remove it all That is how we can remove text from a cell in excel without using the formula. How To Remove TextFroma Cell in E...
Text: the cell or text string you want to check if contains a specific text (the argument substring). Return value: This formula returns a logical value. If the cell contains the substring, the formula returns TRUE, or it returns FALSE. ...
Formula =IF(ISTEXT(A2), "Yes", "") Result Since the A2 cell contains text, the formula will return "Yes" to the output cell. Example 3: If Cell Contains Specific Text, Then Return a Value This formula returns "Yes" if the A2 cell contains the specific text "example." ...
Formula 1 Remove first n characters by REPLACE function Generic formula: REPLACE(text,1,n_char,"") Arguments Text: the value or cell you want to remove its first n characters. Nth_char: the number of characters you want to remove from left side of the text. ...
What to do To avoid losing specific cell formats that you want to keep available in Excel 97-2003, you can remove some cell formats that are not as important to keep. This workbook contains more unique font formats than are supported in the selected file format. Some font for...
Below, I have an example dataset where I have the formula to calculate the commission of each sales rep in column D, and I want to remove the formulas but keep the values.Here are the steps to do this:Select the cell range containing the formulas you wish to remove. In this case, I...
For instance, to remove non-numeric characters from cell A2, the formula in B2 is: =RemoveText(A2) Just copy it down the column, and you'll get this result: Note.Both the native formulas and custom function output anumeric string. To turn it into a number, multiply the result by 1,...