delating extra letters and numbers

wolf735

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Joined
Oct 4, 2009
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52
Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows
Hello, i'm having trouble deleting extra letters and or numbers form my data sets. how delete extra data without "corrupting" data. this is an example of data im using.

<table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 48pt;" width="64" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><col style="width: 48pt;" width="64"> <tbody><tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl70" style="height: 15pt; width: 48pt;" width="64" height="20">Arabic I</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl70" style="height: 15pt;" height="20">Arabic Ii</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl70" style="height: 15pt;" height="20">Chinese Ii</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl70" style="height: 15pt;" height="20">Crime Scene Investigation</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl70" style="height: 15pt;" height="20">Food Preparation</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl70" style="height: 15pt;" height="20">French I</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl70" style="height: 15pt;" height="20">French Ii</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl70" style="height: 15pt;" height="20">German I</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl70" style="height: 15pt;" height="20">Hindi I</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl70" style="height: 15pt;" height="20">Hindi Ii</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl70" style="height: 15pt;" height="20">Indonesian I</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl70" style="height: 15pt;" height="20">Indonesian Ii</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl70" style="height: 15pt;" height="20">Italian I</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl70" style="height: 15pt;" height="20">Italian Ii</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td><td valign="top">
</td> </tr> </tbody></table>my problem is i have no clue as to how to get the extra i's at end out.
<table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 48pt;" width="64" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody></tbody></table>
 

Excel Facts

Format cells as time
Select range and press Ctrl+Shift+2 to format cells as time. (Shift 2 is the @ sign).
You could try

=IF(RIGHT(A1,1)="i",LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-1),A1)

Note that this will not allow for cells that contain something like Hindi. It just looks for an i at the end
 
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it worked the computer was having user errors sorry guys and thanks
 
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