Try this:

=MID(A1,FIND("~~",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-","~~",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",""))))+1,255)

Assumes there is at least 1 hypen.


--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"brantty" wrote in message
...
Ron,

I found some cells that were different,. Instead of looking for the 2nd
hypen, can you adapt a formula to keep all data after the LAST hyphen?

Ty

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:16:24 -0700, brantty

wrote:

I have a column of cells that have excess data that needs removed. The
#of
characters vary. I'm needing a formula to delete all the characters
that
precede the 2nd hyphen as well as delete the 2nd hyphen.

Ex. [ABC-12345-12345]

I need the cell to read [12345]

Can anyone provide a formula that can remove this data?

Assuming that your brackets [ ] are not really part of the value, then:

=MID(A1,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",CHAR(1),2))+1,255)

will return everything after the 2nd hyphen.

--ron