How to extract the first letter from Text？

[phoebe_90]

For example

The initials of Text	Text
P	P2311HJKL
R	R2301OBY0
Z	Z2309NW0

[ed_hayter · Accepted solution]

With a formula tool you could use LEFT([Text], 1) to get the first character. It does not care whether it is a letter or symbol or number though.