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I know you Excel gurus love this stuff, and this is dead easy.
I have a spreadsheet with a column of cells that all contain something like this:
ES.RO(DK4 P) 254017
The text in each cell ends with a 6 digit number, which I want to extract as a value. That I can do using something like:
=VALUE(RIGHT(A1,6))
However, the clever clogs who originally created the list has added random numbers of spaces after the 6 digits. So I don't always get all 6 digits.
How can I get Excel to ignore the spaces? There's quite a lot of the cells, and it'll be a long job to go through and manually delete the spaces in the cells.
Can you use TRIM on the whole cell first and then right
edit: =VALUE(RIGHT(TRIM(A1),6))
Brilliant!
That is so clever and tidy and simple. I looked online an there were all these super complicated things to do with Macros and VBA and other stuff I knew not what.
Thanks Leffeboy
Simple solutions rock. Happy to help