This document contains examples of Excel text formulae that can extract parts of text from a range or any text. It shows formulae using LEFT, MID, FIND, LEN and SUBSTITUTE to pull out portions of names based on the position of spaces. For example, it demonstrates getting the text before or after the first space, or concatenating parts of the name with text operators.

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2. Excel Text Formulae
Here are a few examples of how you
can use Excels Text Functions to
extract parts of Text from a Range.
The same formulas could also be used
on any text, they don't have to be
names
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3. =LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1))
=MID(A3,FIND(" ",A3,1)+1,LEN(A3))
=LEFT(A4)&MID(A4,FIND(" ",A4)+1,1)
=LEFT(A5)&MID(A5,FIND(" ",A5),LEN(A5))
=LEFT(A6,FIND(" ",A6))&MID(A6,FIND(" ",A6)+1,1)
=MID(A7,FIND(" ",A7,1)+1,LEN(A7)) & " " & LEFT(A7,FIND(" ",A7))
=LEN(A8)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A8,"a",""))
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