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Rasoul Khoshravan - 19 Oct 2006 10:53 GMT

I have a column of texts. All of texts have the word "function" at end of
them.
I want to delete this word from end of all texts.
How can I do it.

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Gary L Brown - 19 Oct 2006 21:09 GMT

use FIND/REPLACE.
Find Function and Replace with
HTH,

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> I have a column of texts. All of texts have the word "function" at end of
> them.
> I want to delete this word from end of all texts.
> How can I do it.

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romelsb - 19 Oct 2006 22:03 GMT

Hi gary, Mr. Rasoul has a tricky question....watch out for the advice if
there is a word "function" in the beginning or mid of the text in any
colum----result may be devastating for him? maybe u can suggest some basic
formula.

> use FIND/REPLACE.
> Find Function and Replace with
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Gary L Brown - 19 Oct 2006 22:09 GMT

good point
- use a helper column
=trimleft(A1,right(A1,len(A1)-8))

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> Hi gary, Mr. Rasoul has a tricky question....watch out for the advice if
> there is a word "function" in the beginning or mid of the text in any
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Pete_UK - 20 Oct 2006 01:31 GMT

Slight correction, Gary:

=trim(left(A1,right(A1,len(A1)-8)))

Hope this helps.

Pete

> good point
> - use a helper column
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David Biddulph - 20 Oct 2006 08:09 GMT

I'm not convinced that it does help, Pete, or Gary.

In your formula
right(A1,len(A1)-8))
will remove the first 8 letters from the text string, and give you the
remaining right-hand end of the string.

You are then using that string as the second argument for the left function,
which not surprisingly returns a #value error.

Perhaps you intended to suggest
=TRIM(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-8))

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> Slight correction, Gary:
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Pete_UK - 20 Oct 2006 09:13 GMT

Yes, you're right David -I just spotted trimleft in Gary's posting and
thought that isn't a function!

Pete

> I'm not convinced that it does help, Pete, or Gary.
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Rasoul Khoshravan - 25 Oct 2006 18:34 GMT

Thanks for replies.

> Yes, you're right David -I just spotted trimleft in Gary's posting and
> thought that isn't a function!
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Aladin Akyurek - 21 Oct 2006 11:08 GMT

=TRIM(IF(RIGHT(A2,8)="function",SUBSTITUTE(A2,RIGHT(A2,8),""),A2))

> I have a column of texts. All of texts have the word "function" at end
> of them.
> I want to delete this word from end of all texts.
> How can I do it.

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Ron Coderre - 21 Oct 2006 13:54 GMT

If you only want to remove "function" from the end of a cell...

Try this:

With
A1: (any value or blank)
B1: =TRIM(IF(COUNTIF(A1,"*function"),LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-8),A1))

Example:
Using A1: This function is my function
The formula returns: This function is my

Does that help?
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Regards,
Ron

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> I have a column of texts. All of texts have the word "function" at end of
> them.
> I want to delete this word from end of all texts.
> How can I do it.

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romelsb - 22 Oct 2006 00:17 GMT

Hi again Rasoul....pls check up the best reply for you..so we all learn over
this thread....tks all..

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