I have a list of 250,000 addresses. The street name field sometimes includes a direction letter as the first character such as N,S,E,W. I want to remove these single characters and then move the rest of the address to the left. Moving the text is easy. I can't understand how to remove the first letter when followed by a blank.
Example:
S CAPISTRANO DR
KINGSRIDGE DR
S CAPISTRANO DR
BREMERTON CT
In this example, I want to remove the "S".
In an adjacent column, say B2:
=IF(MID(A2, 2, 1)=" ", MID(A2, 3, LEN(A2)), A2)
Copy that down. Then copy the results, click on the original cells and do a PASTE SPECIAL > VALUES.
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Perhaps a formula like this?
if name starts in A1. Drag formula down as far as you need.
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Arggh! I should have checked before I posted!!
Alf
Works Great! Many thanks.
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