In Excel how to get the left 5 characters of each cell in a specified column and put them into a new column

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I want to take the left 5 characters of each cell in column E and put them into the adjoining cell in column F   A   B    C   D      E                  F 123 bb   cc  dd     90210ABCE13        90210 555 bb   cc  dd     10056Z19s          10056   Using Left x  5  function  how does Excel say  do this to every cell in the specified column

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I find  if the data is imported  you may need to use the trim command on top of it  to get your details   LEFT TRIM B2  8  In my case  I was using it to find a IP range   10 3 44 44 with mask 255 255 255 0  so response is  10 3 44 Kind of handy

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Have you tried using the  auto-fill  in Excel    If you have an entire column of items you put the formula in the first cell  make sure you get the result you desire and then you can do the copy paste  or use auto fill which is an option that sits on the bottom right corner of the cell    You go to that corner in the cell and once your cursor changes to a      you can double-click on it and it should populate all the way down to the last entry  as long as there are no populated cells  that is

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1  Put  Left E1 5  in F1  2  Copy F1  then select entire F column and paste

[excel] In Excel how to get the left 5 characters of each cell in a specified column and put them into a new column

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