Thread: [Solved] How to extract a word from an excel string with various lengths
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Old 09-18-2015, 01:57 AM
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For a value in A1, you could use:
=LEFT(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-SEARCH("alias",A1)-6),SEARCH(" ",RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-SEARCH("alias",A1)-6)))
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