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Kanadani Kanadani is offline
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Default Selecting Partial Text in a field

Hi!

I have a question and was hoping someone would be kind enough to help me.

I am trying to select some text within a field separated by tags like: [tag1]

I have tried this formula:
=MID(LEFT(D1,FIND("#", SUBSTITUTE(D1,"[","#",4))-1), FIND("[External",D1)+1,
255)

And it works great, except that some of the text is separated with a
carriage return after [tag1].

i.e.

Instead of [tag1]Blah blah blah

I have:
[tag1]
Blah blah blah

Ultimately, the best way to get this is to pull the text between [tag1] and
[tag2]. How would I go about doing this? If it's not possible, how can I
adapt my equation to accomodate the carriage returns?

Thank you so much for any help!