removing characters from the right

jed_vii

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In column B I have a list of names generated by an IF function. The IF function gets the information from a different sheet which gets its info from a file containing a list of file names in a folder including sub-direcotries. So the column the IF is pulling the info from also contains other info I'm getting in different columns (hence the IF function).

Here's my problem. In B, I have the folder the files in column A are in. but I don't want the entire address of the folder, I just want the folder name, so I want to delete the frist 38 characters of all cells in B. I want this to happen automatically. I don't want to have to run a "CTRL+H" macro(currently my best option), and the Data->text to column doesn't seem to work because B contains only formulas, not actualy text.
any help would be appreciated.

-jed
 

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In column B I have a list of names generated by an IF function. The IF function gets the information from a different sheet which gets its info from a file containing a list of file names in a folder including sub-direcotries. So the column the IF is pulling the info from also contains other info I'm getting in different columns (hence the IF function).

Here's my problem. In B, I have the folder the files in column A are in. but I don't want the entire address of the folder, I just want the folder name, so I want to delete the frist 38 characters of all cells in B. I want this to happen automatically. I don't want to have to run a "CTRL+H" macro(currently my best option), and the Data->text to column doesn't seem to work because B contains only formulas, not actualy text.
any help would be appreciated.

-jed



Try this...

Code:
=REPLACE("cell where you are getting file address",1,38,"")
 
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worked like a champ

Thanks. When I did the search for this type of function, the replace didn't come up--just in the all, which I didn't have the patience to look through.

This was extraordinarily helpful.

THANKS!
-jed
 
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