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    Hi,

    I am trying to find how to remove brackets that appears in cells according to the example below:

    Cell 1: shai(alpha)
    Cell 2: shai(alphabeta)
    Cell 3: Myname(shaibnnns)

    What I would like is to remove all the characters appear in the brackets in these cells. Note the position of the characters vary from cell to cell and I need to remove all the characters as appear in the brackets, so the reults shoul look like:

    Cell 1: Shai
    Cell 2: Shai
    Cell 3: Myname

    Any idea which formula can I use? It wouldn't be probably 'RIGHT', 'LEFT' or 'TRIM'...

    Thanks,
    Shai

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    Re: Remove Characters from Cells

    Try this:

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    Re: Remove Characters from Cells

    or you can use this

    =REPLACE(A1,FIND("(",A1),LEN(A1),"")

    Data Range
    A
    B
    1
    shai(alpha)
    shai
    2
    shai(alphabeta)
    shai
    3
    Myname(shaibnnns)
    Myname
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    Re: Remove Characters from Cells

    You can do this very quickly without a formula by selecting the cells with the (text) and then use Find & Select, Replace.
    In the Find What enter (*) and then leave the Replace With blank. Replace all.
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