Thread: [Solved] I'm looking for a formula to extract all the text before the last name in a cell
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Old 01-29-2015, 09:07 PM
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Try:
=LEFT(A1,FIND("‡",SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","‡",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))))-1)
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