Try
=TRIM(MID(LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"_",REPT(" ",99),2),99),6,9))

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Jacob


"Fareez" wrote:

Dear All
in below eg I want to extract only NV,MN ,MF and so on which are user name,
LKOC is remaining for all, other thing are differed.


LKOC_NV_SALARY JUL09 Jones
LKOC_MN_SALARY JUL09-2 Jones
LKOC_MF_BU_SAL_JAN 09
LKOC_PP_BU Salary Feb' 09
LKOC_PP_BU Salary Mar' 09

Thanks for your assistance