Method 3 – Using LEFT, FIND, and SUBSTITUTE Functions to Extract Text After a Character We are using the previous dataset, but we changed the lookup characters. We’ll extract the text from the cells after the character noted in the cell next to it. Steps Use the following formula inCell...
We’ll extract the text before the hyphen. Steps: Use the following formula in cell C5. =LEFT(B5,SEARCH("-",B5)-1) Press Enter. Drag the Fill Handle over the range of cells C6:C9 Read More: Extract Text Before Character in Excel Example 4.2 – Extract Text after a Particular ...
Although there is no such thing as Substring function in Excel, there exist three Text functions (LEFT, RIGHT, and MID) to extract a substring of a given length. Also, there are FIND and SEARCH functions to get a substring before or after a specific character. And, there are a handful ...
(1)Before the text: To extract text before a string or character. Select this option and then enter the string or character to extract all text before it (here I enter the hyphen character); (2)After the text: To extract text after a string or character. Select this option and then ...
CELL Information: Returns information about the formatting, location, or contents of a cell This function is not available in Excel for the web. CHAR Text: Returns the character specified by the code number CHIDIST Compatibility: Returns the one-tailed probability of the chi-squared distrib...
TEXTBEFORE(TEXTAFTER(cell,char1),char2) For example, to extract text between parentheses, the formula is as simple as this: =TEXTBEFORE(TEXTAFTER(A2, "("), ")") This formula also works nicely for extracting text between two occurrences of the same character. ...
CELL Information: Returns information about the formatting, location, or contents of a cell This function is not available in Excel for the web. CHAR Text: Returns the character specified by the code number CHIDIST Compatibility: Returns the one-tailed probability of the chi-squared distributio...
To extract first line from cell C3, please use below formula:=LEFT(C3, SEARCH(CHAR(10), C3)-1) Press Enter key. Explanation CHAR(10): the line break. SEARCH function finds the starting position of a character or text string in a given text. Here the formula SEARCH(CHAR(10), C3) ...
CELL Information: Returns information about the formatting, location, or contents of a cell This function is not available in Excel for the web. CHAR Text: Returns the character specified by the code number CHIDIST Compatibility: Returns the one-tailed probability of the chi-squared distributio...
The MID Function extracts character(s) from a string of text. In our example, we told the MID Function to only extract one character. Then by defining the array constant {15,14,13,12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1} as the start position, the MID Function will output the text in re...