Zip codes need correcting
Hi,
Thanks in advance for your help!
I received an Excel doc from another source that has the entire column of zip codes entered incorrectly. For example, they are set up as "12345-0000-0000". The last four digits have been repeated. How can I fix all of the zip codes (there are 5,000 rows in the doc)? Is there a way to find and replace?
Have a great day!
If all the codes are repeated last four characters:
=LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-5)
Quang PT
Try this formula in B1
assuming zip codes in column A
=LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-5)
Row\Col 12345-0000-0000 12345-0000
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Holy cow, you folks are great! Thanks so much, that worked like a charm. If it's not asking too much, and so I can learn, how did that formula work?
Not to steal their thunder, but they seem to be off-line, so...
=LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-5)
the LEFT() function returns a certain number of characters from the left of a string. The syntax is =LEFT(string,number-of-characters)
So we have =LEFT(A1...and then how many characters?
You said the last 4 digits had been repeated, that, plus the dash (-) gives 5 chracters that you want removed, so they need to know how many characters remain.
=LEN(A1) returns how many characters are in A1, so LEN(A1)-5 gives how many chracters you need
Hope that made sense?
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Regards
Ford
A bit late in answering but an alternative solution is
B1 =SUBSTITUTE(A1,RIGHT(A1,5),"",2)
HTH
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