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Thanks for your help! The first formula worked great. Tbe second
formula is simply returning whatever was in the first cell. I think
that is because the first formula returns "Apt###" and not "Apt ###"
which is what is A2.

On Mar 17, 11:17 pm, "T. Valko" wrote:
Try this using the built-in functions:

For the apt number:

A2 = Northgate I Apt 342

Formula entered in B2:

="Apt
"&LOOKUP(10^10,--MID(A2,MIN(FIND({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A2&"01234567 89")),ROW(INDIRECT("1:255"))))

For the name:

Formula entered in C2:

=TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A2,B2,""))

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I am trying to clean up an address table in excel. Here is example of
the row I am working with:


Northgate I Apt 342
Northgate I Apt 242
Apt 242 Northgate I
Apt 43 Northgate I


I want to take each address and create two new columns, one for
"Northgate I" and one for Apt###, with whatever apartment # is in the
cell. One of the problems is that the cells are not uniformly name/
apart#, but rather, in all sorts of combinations. There are never more
than 3 numbers after "Apt", and the numbers always come after "Apt"


Any help or advice would be great. I am also looking to learn some
VBA. Any websites or books you recommend for learning VBA for Excel?


Thanks,
Michael