which replaces the first 24 characters in the text with an empty string (""). The REPLACE function can handle this easily, we just need to provide a cell reference (B6), a starting position (1), the number of characters to replace (24), and the text to use for replacement (""): For replacement, we use an empty string ("") which causes REPLACE to replace characters 1-24 with nothing.
Alternative with SUBSTITUTE
Since the text in this case never varies, we could also use the the SUBSTITUTE function to perform the name operation:
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