Function or formula needed

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himanshu - Jul 17, 2010 at 06:31 PM
rizvisa1 Posts 4478 Registration date Thursday January 28, 2010 Status Contributor Last seen May 5, 2022 - Jul 18, 2010 at 10:02 AM
Hello,

i am also a bigginer in excel i just want to kow that if we have a name in cell and want to display a certain part from that cell in another cell, what we need to do in that case.

Example: if we have HSBE bank in the cell and want to display HSBS only.



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Jul 18, 2010 at 05:54 AM
Hi there,

Select the cell and point to data tab>select text to column on same tab>on the open window select 'delimited' press next,select tab and space,nest and last tab select general and finish.

Thanks
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rizvisa1 Posts 4478 Registration date Thursday January 28, 2010 Status Contributor Last seen May 5, 2022 766
Jul 18, 2010 at 10:02 AM
Depends on what you want. Is it a fixed length string that you want to display or a delimited string. By that I mean would you always want to show first 4 characters or do you want to display till first space
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