delete first 4 letters in a cell

Hello I want to delete the first four characters in a cell example MRS.
Mary Johnson I want to delete MRS. I tried "left, and mid function but I
must be doing something wrong. Thanks for your help

=RIGHT(A5,LEN(A5)-5)
or
=RIGHT(A5,LEN(A5)-FIND(" ",A5))
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"Wanna Learn" wrote in message
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Hello I want to delete the first four characters in a cell example
MRS.
Mary Johnson I want to delete MRS. I tried "left, and mid function but I
must be doing something wrong. Thanks for your help

On the face of it, this might suffice
With data in A1 down
In B1, copied down: =TRIM(MID(A1,5,99))
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"Wanna Learn" wrote:
Hello I want to delete the first four characters in a cell example MRS.
Mary Johnson I want to delete MRS. I tried "left, and mid function but I
must be doing something wrong. Thanks for your help

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 05:38:01 -0800, Wanna Learn
wrote:

Hello I want to delete the first four characters in a cell example MRS.
Mary Johnson I want to delete MRS. I tried "left, and mid function but I
must be doing something wrong. Thanks for your help

If you really just want to delete the first four characters, then:

=REPLACE(A1,1,4,"")

If you also want to delete any leading spaces, left over, as there would be
with your example, then:

=trim(REPLACE(A1,1,4,""))

If you want to delete everything up to and including the first space (i.e. the
first word), then:

=MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,255)

If you only want to delete the first word if it is one of several words, then
it gets more complicated.
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