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Extracting Words From Text in ExcelSee Also: Extract nth Word From Text in Excel Custom Function/Formula || Count Words
in Excel || Excel Formulas for Text, Dates & Numbers
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
Text in Excel
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