Comments on: Using Excel text functions – part 2 http://beancountersguide.co.uk/2007/04/28/using-excel-text-functions-part-2/ Helping accountants and fellow professionals turn the IT millstone into a surfboard Fri, 18 May 2012 07:17:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: simontkb http://beancountersguide.co.uk/2007/04/28/using-excel-text-functions-part-2/#comment-199 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:59:13 +0000 http://beancountersguide.co.uk/2007/04/28/using-excel-text-functions-part-2/#comment-199 Hi – have a look at this post from MrExcel:

http://www.mrexcel.com/archive2/25000/28430.htm

Towards the end there is the following formula which is worth a try (should all be in same cell):

=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(“@”,SUBSTITUTE(A1,”-”,”@”,LEN(A1)
-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,”-”,”")))))

]]> By: Mustafa http://beancountersguide.co.uk/2007/04/28/using-excel-text-functions-part-2/#comment-198 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:45:51 +0000 http://beancountersguide.co.uk/2007/04/28/using-excel-text-functions-part-2/#comment-198 Hi,
so, how can we get the last part of the text if the text is consist of more than 2 parts;
mustafa-istanbul-34
kemal-izmir-sirinyer-35
how can i get only last parts of the values:34 and 35 ?

]]> By: Richard Jones http://beancountersguide.co.uk/2007/04/28/using-excel-text-functions-part-2/#comment-8 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:34:12 +0000 http://beancountersguide.co.uk/2007/04/28/using-excel-text-functions-part-2/#comment-8 In your example of the sales-1000 etc I tried it using tools/text to columns using the – as the delimiter. It seemed to work in a simple example.

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