Removing the last part of an ID from when it starts with a letter at the end.

A fairly simple process if you are willing to use Power Query. Split your column on the delimiter Number to Non-Number

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Formula solution. This works on my version of Excel. It may work on yours, but will need to be entered as an array formula.

These are a little different from ordinary formulae in that they MUST be confirmed in the FIRST CELL ONLY by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to activate the array, not just ENTER. After that, the array can be dragged down as normal, to cover the desired range.

You will know the array is active when you see the curly brackets { } appear around the outside of your formula. If you do not use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER you will (almost always) get an error message or an incorrect answer. Press F2 on that cell and try again.

Don't type the curly brackets yourself - it won't work...

=IFERROR(LEFT(A2,SUM((CODE(MID($A2,ROW(INDIRECT("2:"&LEN($A2))),1))>=65)*(CODE(MID($A2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN($A2)-1)),1))<65)*ROW(INDIRECT("2:"&LEN(A2))))-1),A2)

Formula for B2 entered using Ctrl Shift Enter:

=IF(ISNUMBER(MID(A2,2,99)*1),A2,LEFT(A2,MIN(TRANSPOSE(IF(ISNUMBER(MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("A2:A"&LEN(A2))),1)*1)*1,999,ROW(INDIRECT("A2:A"&LEN(A2))))))-1))

@ Glenn Kennedy.
Nice one, Glenn.

Dave... I only managed it after watching your deft use of ROW +- INDIRECT, over several years, in all sorts of different ways...

Glenn thank you for the kind words.
Your solution above inspired this one at my end.

Formula:

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Please try

=LEFT(A2)&-LOOKUP(0,-MID(A2,2,ROW(A$1:A$9)))

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