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In Excel how do you TRIM a string then remove characters at the end of the string within the same cell?
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∙ 9y ago
It really depends on what you want to do when you say you want to remove characters at the end. Factors like how many characters you want to remove would be important to know. There are various functions that would be of use such as LEN, LEFT, RIGHT and MID, amongst others. As a random example, say you have text in E9 that you want to trim and then remove just the last character from, you could do this:
=LEFT(TRIM(E9),LEN(TRIM(E9))-1)
It gets the trimmed version of the text, finds its length and starting from the left takes the amount of characters that is one less than the length, and so leaves out the last character. Whatever text you put into cell E9, regardless of its length and how many spaces are around it, it will achieve its purpose. So by using some of the Text functions available in Excel, you could do something like what you are saying. You just need to experiment with the functions and then combine them, as in the example.
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