Excel Tips: Extracting Text Between Words and More (MID, LEFT FIND, RIGHT, LEN, TRIM functions)

Excel Tips: Extracting Text Between Words and More (MID, LEFT FIND, RIGHT, LEN, TRIM functions)

How to use the LEFT, FIND, TRIM, MID, LEN, and RIGHT functions to extract a word from text

FIND returns the position or the number of characters up to a string you’re trying to find

LEFT returns a number of characters from the beginning of the target text

RIGHT returns a number of characters from the end of the target text

TRIM removes leading and trailing spaces

LEN returns how many characters (including spaces) are in the target text

MID returns a number of characters from a starting position

The concept for between text extraction is to get position at the end of the text you don’t want, and the count of the entire string minus what you don’t want.

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