Try these...

B1:
=LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1)

C1:
=--SUBSTITUTE(MID(A1,FIND("(",A1)+1,10),")","")

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Kent" wrote in message
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Dear all,

I have 3 coulumns of data

A B C
May (17) May 17
Peter (25) Peter 25
Jason (5) Jason 5

By formula, how to extract column B and C from column A?

Thank you

Kent