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Default Help putting left, right, find and len together

Hi,
Try these

for 5
=MID(A1,SEARCH(" ",A1)+1,SEARCH("x",A1)-(SEARCH(" ",A1)+1))

For 75
=MID(A1,SEARCH("x",A1)+1,SEARCH("x",A1,SEARCH("x", A1)+1)-(SEARCH("x",A1)+1))

For 200
=MID(A1,SEARCH("x",A1,SEARCH("x",A1)+1)+1,SEARCH(" ",A1,SEARCH("
",A1)+1)-(SEARCH("x",A1,SEARCH("x",A1)+1)+1))

For the right bit
=MID(A1,SEARCH(" ",A1,SEARCH(" ",A1,SEARCH(" ",A1)+1)+1),LEN(A1))

Mike


"Glenda" wrote:

I need to pull the following string apart in several different ways and I
can't get the combination of the functions right for it to work.

example of string:
AB 5X75X200 YD G5487L

First - I want to look at the string and pull out the dimensions 5, 75, and
200 and put them in separate cells. character counts will not always be the
same

Second - YD may not always be YD it could also be LY

Third - I need to start at the right find the space and pull everything out
to the right of the space.