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Replacing Substrings with Numbers from Adjacent Cells


Problem:

Replacing the "XX" substring in each of the strings in column A with the corresponding number from column B.

Solution:

Use the LEFT, FIND, and MID functions as shown in the following formula:
=LEFT(A2,FIND("XX",A2)-1)&B2&MID(A2,FIND("XX",A2)+2,255)