Heather has attended:
Excel Intermediate course
EXTRACTING VARIABLE TEXT
I HAVE A FAIRLY LARGE VOLUME OF TEXT THAT I JUST WANT TO EXTRACT PART OF. E.G 'Deliveries - DAL'.
THE FIRST PART OF THIS TEXT IS ALWAYS 'Deliveries - '
IT IS THE LAST PART OF THE TEXT I NEED 'DAL'. THIS IS THE VARIABLE PART OF THE TEXT
PLEASE ADVISE IF POSSIBLE
THANKS
RE: EXTRACTING VARIABLE TEXT
Hi Heather,
Thank you for the forum question.
To extract text from a text string Excel offers a number of text functions.
If you have the text string "Deliveries - DAL" in A1 and want to extract "DAL" in B1. In B1 type:
=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-13)
If it is alwas three characters you want to extract from the right type:
=RIGHT(A1,3)
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