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Thanks Harlan
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"Harlan Grove" wrote:

Jacob Skaria wrote...
With your name in A1 try

=TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",REPT(" ",99)),99))

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If the string were long with many spaces, this could fail.

If the string happens to end with trailing spaces, this WILL fail. The
work-around for that is another TRIM call.

=TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(A1)," ",REPT(" ",99)),99))

A more robust approach is

=MID(TRIM(A1),FIND(CHAR(127),SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(A1)," ",CHAR(127),
LEN(TRIM(A1))-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))))+1,32767)

which assumes CHAR(127) wouldn't be found in the string. In the very
unlikely chance it could, the most robust approach involves using a
defined name like seq referring to the formula

=ROW(INDEX(Incurred!$1:$65536,1,1):INDEX(Incurred! $1:$65536,32767,1))

and using it in the formula

=MID(TRIM(A1),LOOKUP(2,1/(MID(" "&TRIM(A1),seq,1)=" "),seq),32767)