This post will teach you how to remove a text string of specified length from another text string in a cell.

Excel Replace Function Remove Text String

If you want to remove text string from a cell in excel, you can use the REPLACE function. It can remove the text string by position in a string.

The Excel REPLACE function replaces all or part of a text string with another text string

The syntax of the REPLACE function is as below:

= REPLACE(old_text, start_num, num_chars, new_text)

For Example:

If you want to remove text string from a string in Cell B1, and the length of the string that you want to remove is 6, and the starting position number is 1, the new text character can use empty string. Now we can write down the REPLACE function to remove text string:

=REPLACE(B1,1,6,"")

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