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    Remove S At End Of Word To Make Singular

    I'm looking for a formula that would remove the last character of a word if it is an "s".

    There can be multiple words and instances of "s" in a cell. Therefore, it needs to check the end of every word in the cell and remove the s from any that end in s.

    So basically making plural to singular, perhaps multiple times in a cell.

    Anyone's help is appreciated!

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    Re: Remove S At End Of Word To Make Singular

    This will do it.

    =TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A1&" ","s "," "))


    Howere, there are tons of words that end with s where the s does not necessarily mean it's plural.
    So you may get some s removed in error.

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    Re: Remove S At End Of Word To Make Singular

    Maybe something like this...

    Data Range
    A
    B
    1
    Cars trucks goat boats
    Car truck goat boat


    =TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A1&" ","s "," "))
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