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Default How do I retrieve the text string from the right of a cell


Try this


=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND("*",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"
","*",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","")))))

The ONLY thing this won't do is extract people with a two word last
name.


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