This was exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks
Michael

"Jason Lepack" wrote in message
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I put your two tests in Cells A1 and A2.

Paste this into a column and fill down:
=MID(A1,FIND("(",A1)+1,FIND(")",A1)-FIND("(",A1)-1)

Cheers,
Jason Lepack

Michael wrote:
I have a list in Excel from A1:A100 with names like the ones mentioned
below:

Michelle Fooo )
Myhaass Smith )


I want to parse them using string functions to the following format




Any ideas how to do this using a formula?

Thanks in advance
Michael