Dear Valko,

You're right.
Pure alpha-numeric works with your formula but my stuffs inside bracket are
Chinese.
Thanks very much for your assistance.

Kent




"T. Valko" bl...
Works OK for me on your posted sample data.

Are there any non-numbers within the ( )?

May (x)
Peter (10A)

There may also be unseen whitespace characters like HTML char 160 at the
end of the string.

May (17)<char 160

Try one of these in C1:

=--SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(A1,FIND(")",A1)-1),B1&" (","")
=SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(A1,FIND(")",A1)-1),B1&" (","")

If there are non-numbers within the ( ) then the 1st one will still return
an error.

The 2nd one will return whatever's inside the ( ) as TEXT (even if it's a
number).

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Kent" wrote in message
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Dear Valko,

B1 works but C1 only returns an #VALUE!


Kent




"T. Valko" .gbl...
Try these...

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

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

--
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