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    WSbawhorton
    AskWoody Lounger
    April 29, 2010 at 7:07 am #468551

    HI, I have about 5,000 rows of data. One of the columns currently contains 21 characters includes spaces, but I only want to have the last 8 characters. Is this called truncating and how do i do it?

    brian

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    • WSGfamily
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      April 29, 2010 at 7:16 am #1221159

      HI, I have about 5,000 rows of data. One of the columns currently contains 21 characters includes spaces, but I only want to have the last 8 characters. Is this called truncating and how do i do it?

      brian

      The simplest way is to use the following.
      =RIGHT(A1,8)

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