albatross. 1  A metaphor for a dead weight or burden that one must carry, especially when the burden is not a literal one but a stigma of some kind that one cannot easily discard or throw off. The name comes from a story about a sailor who killed an albatross that was following his ship, an act thought to bring bad luck upon the ship.
Run the Remove Characters tool by clicking on its icon under the Ablebits Data tab in Excel. To remove characters select the range with the cells that contain values you want to delete. Expand the group Remove characters or substrings. You can select one of three radio buttons according to your task.
Like: LEFT(text,num_chars). Sometimes you want to remove some number of last letters from a string in your spreadsheet. For this you can use a very handy function: LEFT(). LEFT() returns the first X characters in a string, based on the amount of characters you specify.Like: LEFT(text,num_chars). Say you want to remove the last 3 characters from a string in cell A1 you can use: =LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-3).Or more generally:=LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-[number of characters to remove]).EFT() returns the first X characters in a string, based on the amount of characters you specify. Like: LEFT(text,num_chars). Say you want to remove the last 3 characters from a string in cell A1 you can use: =LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-3). Or more generally: =LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-[number of characters to remove]).