I'm only trying to delete some CONCATENATE() function from some formulas in Excel.
What I have; here 'Something' could be a lot of things (digits, <, >, texts, etc…
CONCATENATE("Something = "; SUM(A1:A30))What I want:
SUM(A1:A30)And it seems very complicated!
I've tried with the search and replace functionality but even as stated here and here the wildcard \number doesn't seem to work.
What I've tried:
Search:
CONCATENATE("*= ";*))Replace:
\2But it only replace with exactly \2 and not the SUM(...)
I've also tried to 'group' the matching characters with surrounding parenthesis : CONCATENATE("(*)= ";(*))) but it doesn't find anything.
I thought I could do this in 2 steps : first just replace the begining with nothing CONCATENATE("*= "; and then get rid of the final parenthesis. But Excel won't accept this and I got "There's a problem with this formula" alert dialog.
Edit: Trying to follow @Mayukh’s instructions:
