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LEFT / RIGHT / MID

LEFT, RIGHT, and MID pull a number of characters from a string — handy for codes, IDs, and parsing.

Excel
=LEFT(A2, 3)
Google Sheets
=LEFT(A2, 3)

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How it works

  1. 1A2 is the source text.
  2. 23 is how many characters to take from the left.

Need a version for your data?

Try: “Get the first 3 characters of the code in A2”

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