Master Excel's LEFT Function: Extract Text Efficiently
Understanding the LEFT and LEFTB Functions Need to extract a portion of text from a cell in Excel? The LEFT function is your solution. This function efficiently extracts a specified number of characters from the beginning (left side) of a text string. Its counterpart, LEFTB, performs a similar operation but counts bytes instead of characters. This subtle difference becomes significant when working with double-byte character sets (DBCS), common in languages like Japanese and Chinese, where a single character can occupy more than one byte of memory....