How do i remove everything from the right of a character in excel?

This article introduces different methods of removing texts before or after a specific character or the nth occurrence character from cells in Excel.

How do i remove everything from the right of a character in excel?


Delete texts before or after specific character by Find and Replace in Excel

For removing all texts before or after a specific character with the Find and Replace function, please do as follows.

1. Select the cells you will remove texts before or after a specific character, press Ctrl + H keys to open the Find and Replace dialog.

In the Find and Replace dialog box:

1. For removing all before the specific character such as comma, please type *,into the Find what text box;

2. For removing all after the specific character such as comma, please type ,* into the Find what text box;

Notes:

1. You can change the comma to any character as you need.

2. In this case, all texts before the last comma or after the first comma will be removed from the selected cells.

2. Keep the Replace with text box empty, and then click the Replace All button. See screenshot:

How do i remove everything from the right of a character in excel?



Delete texts before or after the first/last specific character by formula

This section will show you formulas of deleting everything before or after the first/last specific character from cells in Excel.

To remove everything before the first comma, please:

Select a blank cell, copy and paste the below formula into it, and press Enter key. Then drag the Fill Handle to apply the formula to other cells. See screenshot:

Formula: Remove everything before the first comma

=RIGHT(B5,LEN(B5)-FIND(",",B5))

Notes:

1. In the above formula, B5 is the cell you will remove texts from, and "," is the character you will remove texts based on.

2. To remove all before the last specific character, use this formula:

=RIGHT(B5,LEN(B5)-FIND("@",SUBSTITUTE(B5,"Character","@",(LEN(B5)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B5,"Character","")))/LEN("Character"))))

How do i remove everything from the right of a character in excel?

To remove everything after the first comma, please:

Select a blank cell, copy and paste the below formula into it, and press Enter key. Then drag the Fill Handle to apply the formula to other cells. See screenshot:

Formula: Remove everything after the first comma

=LEFT(B5,FIND(",",B5)-1)

Notes:

1. In the above formula, B5 is the cell you will remove texts from, and "," is the character you will remove texts based on.

2. To remove all after the last specific character, use this formula:

=LEFT(B5,FIND("@",SUBSTITUTE(B5,"character","@",LEN(B5)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B5,"character",""))))-1)

How do i remove everything from the right of a character in excel?


Delete texts before or after the nth occurrence character by formula

The below formulas can help to delete all before or after the nth occurrence character from cells in Excel.

To remove all before the nth occurrence character from cells, you need to:

Select a blank cell to output the result, copy the below formula into it, and press Enter key. Then drag the Fill Handle to apply the formula to other cells. See screenshot:

Formula: Remove everything before the second occurrence comma

=RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(B5, ",", CHAR(9), 2), LEN(B5)- FIND(CHAR(9), SUBSTITUTE(B5, ",", CHAR(9), 2), 1) + 1)

Notes:

1. In the formulas, B5, "," and 2 number mean that all contents after the second occurrence comma will be removed from cell B5.

2. You can change the "," and 2 number to any character and occurrence position number as you need.

How do i remove everything from the right of a character in excel?

To remove all after the nth occurrence character from cells, you need to:

Select a blank cell to output the result, copy the below formula into it, and press Enter key. Then drag the Fill Handle to apply the formula to other cells. See screenshot:


Formula: Remove everything after the second occurrence comma

=LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(B5,",",CHAR(9),2),FIND(CHAR(9),SUBSTITUTE(B5,",",CHAR(9),2),1)-1)

Notes:

1. In the formulas, B5, "," and 2 number mean that all contents after the second occurrence comma will be removed from cell A7.

2. You can change the "," and 2 number to any character and occurrence position number as you need.

How do i remove everything from the right of a character in excel?


Easily remove texts before/after a specific character with Kutools for Excel

If there is only one comma separator for each cell in a range, and you want to remove everything before or after this comma from cells, please try the Split Cells utility of Kutools for Excel. This utility will help you to solve the problem with only several clicks:

1. Select the cells which you will remove everything before or after the comma from, and then click Kutools > Text > Split Cells. See screenshot:

How do i remove everything from the right of a character in excel?

2. In the Split Cells dialog, select the Split to Columns option in the Type section, and in the Split by section, choose the Other option and type a comma into the blank box, and then click the OK button. See screenshot:

How do i remove everything from the right of a character in excel?

3. Another Split Cells dialog pops up, select a blank cell for locating the texts, and then click the OK button.

How do i remove everything from the right of a character in excel?

Then you can see the selected cells are split by specific character – comma. See screenshot:

How do i remove everything from the right of a character in excel?

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How do I delete everything right of a character in Excel?

Type the formula: =LEFT(A2,FIND(“@”,A2)-1). Press the return key. This will give you the text obtained after removing everything following the '@' symbol from the string in cell A2.

How do I delete everything after a certain number of characters in Excel?

Take instance, you want to delete all strings after the third character, and select a cell and type this formula =LEFT(A1,3) into it, press Enter key and drag the autofill handle down to cells. Tip: In above formula, you can change 3 to any nth as you need.

How do you remove data from the right in Excel?

To delete the first or last n characters from a string, this is what you need to do: On the Ablebits Data tab, in the Text group, click Remove > Remove by Position. On the add-in's pane, select the target range, specify how many characters to delete, and hit Remove.

How do I remove all characters from a string after a specific character?

To remove everything after a specific character in a string: Use the String. split() method to split the string on the character.