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Extract Surname from text
Can you help me write a formula to extract the surname for a text.
For example, Text 1. Peter V Crazy 2. James Van-Cleef 3. N N M B Chan Results 1. Crazy 2. Van-Cleef 3. Chan Thanks. |
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Extract Surname from text
=MID(A1,FIND("~",SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","~",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"
",""))))+1,9999) -- Gary''s Student - gsnu200908 "nc" wrote: Can you help me write a formula to extract the surname for a text. For example, Text 1. Peter V Crazy 2. James Van-Cleef 3. N N M B Chan Results 1. Crazy 2. Van-Cleef 3. Chan Thanks. |
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Hi,
=TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",REPT(" ",LEN(A1))),LEN(A1))) Mike "nc" wrote: Can you help me write a formula to extract the surname for a text. For example, Text 1. Peter V Crazy 2. James Van-Cleef 3. N N M B Chan Results 1. Crazy 2. Van-Cleef 3. Chan Thanks. |
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