removing characters at end to save sheet based off cells in the sheet

B-Man

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I currently use this code below to grab data from my sheet to save the file. sometimes though C4 doesn't have 6 characters at the end I need to remove.
Is there a formula that will remove all the characters after the last letter... ie numbers, period and %? Sometimes there is no numbers or letter or they can change from a space and 3 characters to a space and 5 characters
ie. "2020 Simon 100%" vs "2020 Simon 80%" vs "2020 Simon 60.5%"

VBA Code:
If answer = vbYes Then
thisfile = ThisWorkbook.Path & Application.PathSeparator & "Batch " & Range("C3").Value & " (" & Left(Range("C4"), Len(Range("C4")) - 6) & ") " & Range("c5").Value & " L"
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=thisfile
End If
 

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In your examples you are removing everything after the last space, are there any times when this isn't the case?
 
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Something like this will trim C4 to the last letter:
VBA Code:
For x = Len(Range("C4")) To 1 Step -1
    If Mid(Range("C4"), x, 1) Like "[A-Za-z]" Then name = Left(Range("C4"), x): Exit For
Next x
If answer = vbYes Then
    thisfile = ThisWorkbook.Path & Application.PathSeparator & "Batch " & Range("C3").Value & " (" & name & ") " & Range("C5").Value & " L"
    ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=thisfile
End If
 
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Solution
Something like this will trim C4 to the last letter:
VBA Code:
For x = Len(Range("C4")) To 1 Step -1
    If Mid(Range("C4"), x, 1) Like "[A-Za-z]" Then name = Left(Range("C4"), x): Exit For
Next x
If answer = vbYes Then
    thisfile = ThisWorkbook.Path & Application.PathSeparator & "Batch " & Range("C3").Value & " (" & name & ") " & Range("C5").Value & " L"
    ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=thisfile
End If
Thanks

I moved this line to the top of the code
VBA Code:
If answer = vbYes Then
and had to add
VBA Code:
dim Name as String
. Works perfectly. Cheers!
 
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Yep, I left you the homework ;).
Thanks for the positive feedback (y), glad having been of some help.
 
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