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Excel has very powerful and useful Text formula/functions that we can use to extract words from a string of words. Or, put another

way, parse out specific words from text. The example below show how we can use the Text formula/functions to do this. Get Last Word From Text String. See Also: Extract Last Word VBA

Text Sting in A2 is;

Our main business focus is Excel Spreadsheets Formula/Function is;

=MID(SUBSTITUTE(A2," ","^",LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2," ",""))),FIND("^",SUBSTITUTE(A2," ","^",LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2," ",""))))+1,256)

Formula/Function result is;

Spreadsheets Get First Word From Text String

Excel: Extracting Words From Text in Excel. Parse Words From a Text String in Excel

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Excel: Extracting Words From Text in Excel. Parse Words From a Text String in Excel

Text Sting in A4 is;

Our main business focus is Excel Spreadsheets Formula/Function is;

=LEFT(A4,FIND(" ",A4)-1) Formula/Function result is;

Our Get Nth Word From Text String (4th word in this case) Text Sting in A6 is;

Our main business focus is Excel Spreadsheets Formula/Function is;

=MID(MID(MID(SUBSTITUTE(A6," ","^",3),1,256),FIND("^",SUBSTITUTE(A6," ","^",3)),256),2,FIND(" ",MID(MID(SUBSTITUTE(A6," ","^",3),1,256),FIND

("^",SUBSTITUTE(A6," ","^",3)),256))-2) Formula/Function result is;

focus This last one can seem a bit over-whelming. It is the 4 occurrences of the number 3 that determines that we parse out the 4th word. In other words, to get

the 5th word all occurrences of the number 3 would need to be changed to number 4. If it was the 2nd word we wanted, we would change all occurrences

of the number 3 to number 1. Please note, the above formula cannot be used to get the first or last word. For this you can use: Extract nth Word From

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