Another way would be to do Data TextToColumns, and use the $ as the
delimiter........then do Edit Replace space-2 with nothing on column B to
get rid of the "2"
If you do this frequently, it could be "macroized"

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"Peanut" wrote in message
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I'm trying to create a formula that will pick out certain characters
within a
text string, but the characters aren't a uniform length, nor are they
always
the same character number within the string. For example, I would like to
pick out the dollar amounts in the following strings.

Distributed 1 $91.00 2 $419.00
Distributed 1 $1,980.00 2 $2,519.00
Distributed 1 $94,181.00 2 $42,014.00

I can use the MID function to pick out the first amount, but I can't
figure
out how to pick out the last amount, since there are a differing number of
characters on each line.

Let me know if you have any secrets. I would even appreciate a macro that
would accomplish the same thing.