Comments on: Substitute Formula http://excelhints.com/2008/08/17/substitute-formula/ Excel Tips and Tricks for All Levels Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:18:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: neel raj http://excelhints.com/2008/08/17/substitute-formula/comment-page-1/#comment-1237 neel raj Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:43:43 +0000 http://excelhints.com/?p=80#comment-1237 i run into a issue using this formula. for example say cell A1 has the following text "45 people failed the test 4 times" i want to remove test 4, but the issue is the number 4 keeps changing sometime its 5 sometimes its 1, so one day cell a1 will say "45 people failed the test 4 times" and sometimes cell a1 will say "45 failed the test 5 times", i used the substitute(a1,”test #?,””) but that came back with a error i run into a issue using this formula. for example say cell A1 has the following text “45 people failed the test 4 times” i want to remove test 4, but the issue is the number 4 keeps changing sometime its 5 sometimes its 1, so one day cell a1 will say “45 people failed the test 4 times” and sometimes cell a1 will say “45 failed the test 5 times”,

i used the substitute(a1,”test #?,””) but that came back with a error

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