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Default i need help creating a function that will extract words from a string of text

Harlan Grove wrote...
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=REPLACE(LEFT(A1,FIND("|",A1,FIND("|",A1)+1)-1),1,FIND("|",A1),"")


Or shorter but with hardcoded #s,

=MID(LEFT(A1,FIND("|",A1,FIND("|",A1)+1)-1),FIND("|",A1)+1,1024)




 
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