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03-14-2012, 07:39 AM

Colin Legg Colin Legg is offline

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Here's one way

=LEFT(A1,SEARCH("\ /",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\","\ /",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\","")))))

The formula will return a #VALUE! error if there are no \ characters in the cell being checked.

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