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rowingblazers
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Hello,

I have a column with a list of data that I want to organize by certain cities.

So what I have right now is something similar to

NY59V9
NJ47W3
SF111A3

339TX

94CT28

As you can see my dataset is a mix of number/random alphabets+ two state abbrevation. 
I would like to only extract those Abbreviation and create a new column but I just can't really figure out how. 

NY

NJ

SF

TX

CT

Can anyone give me some advice?
Please let me know if you have any question. 

Best,
KP

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Vijay_A_Verma
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Use following formula in a custom column. Replace Data with your column name.

=Text.Start(Text.Select([Data], {"A".."Z"}),2)

 

 

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Vijay_A_Verma
Most Valuable Professional
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Use following formula in a custom column. Replace Data with your column name.

=Text.Start(Text.Select([Data], {"A".."Z"}),2)

 

 

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