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try use:<br />

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-42059808-1"><span>=Left(yourCell, 3)</span>
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i need formula to obtain first 3 characters in a cell<br />
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thanks
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i need formula to obtain first 3 characters in a cell

thanks

EXCEL FORMULA - first three characters in a cell

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Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, along with a number of tools to assist in making the individual components work together. Coding within and between the projects is done in Visual Basic for Applications, known as VBA.