thanks, both to Tom and Bob.

Another way I've just found is to create a VBA user function in a module
(best in personal.xls so it's always available):

Function myReverse(stringtocheck As String, stringtomatch As String, startas
As Long)
myReverse = InStrRev(stringtocheck, stringtomatch, startas)
End Function


"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

=FIND("~",SUBSTITUTE(D6,"the","~",(LEN(D6)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(D6,"the","")))/LEN
("the")))

Entered with Ctrl+Shift+Enter since it is an array formula.

Searches for the last occurance of "the" as an example.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Martin" wrote in message
...
Is there such a thing? I know there's SEARCH() which is equivalent to
InStr() in VBA but now we have InStrRev() which searches for a string from
the end rather than the beginning. Be a lot more useful than CRITBINOM()
etc!