Good idea! This all gets me exactly what I needed! Thank You so Much,
Bob!!

Dan



"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Dan,

If you wanjt to preserve the sign, I would use a helper column.

D1: =TRIM(IF(RIGHT(TRIM(A1))="-",LEFT(TRIM(A1),LEN(TRIM(A1))-1),A1))
E1: =--(IF(RIGHT(TRIM(A1))="-","-","")&MID((D1),FIND("~",SUBSTITUTE((D1),"
","~",
LEN(D1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(D1," ",""))))+1,99))

your formula only gets US as it only scans along as far as three spaces.

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HTH

RP

"Dan B" wrote in message
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I can't believe that's all it was.....although I was thinking all along
that
it had to be something stupid that. How embarrassing!!

The dash......it must be signifying a negative number. This is from a
data
dump out of an accounting system.

Would you have any pointers on why the formula in column C is only
pulling
the first word...such as US instead of US Government Bonds?

Thanks for all your help!!



"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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oops, just noticed, some of them have a dash - at the end, what does
that
signify?

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HTH

RP

"Dan B" wrote in message
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Bob,
Here is the spreadsheet from the other post. I just copied a piece of
the
data into this one. You'll be able to see what I was trying to
accomplish.....splitting data in column A into 3 separate columns.
Column
B
worked fine. In column C, I wanted the words, but only got part of
them.
Column D is your formula.

Thanks for your help!!