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How to extract the first letter from Text？

phoebe_90
8 - Asteroid
‎08-31-2023 12:06 AM

For example

The initials of TextText
PP2311HJKL
RR2301OBY0
ZZ2309NW0
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ed_hayter
13 - Pulsar
‎08-31-2023 12:16 AM

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.

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