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Default Separating / extracting words within a cell

If you are working in VBA, then use the SPLIT() function. It will both
separate a phrase into individual words/numbers and will allow arbitrary
field separators.
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"Glen" wrote:

One other thought comes to mind. How to handle delimiters within text in
cells or variables.

Is it possible to define a globaldelimiter for example a "," or a "/".

thanks

 
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