Thanks to Excel’s string functions ... quick example using the sample data shown in Figure A. The MID() function returns a substring from the middle of a source string. Specifically, let ...

The FIND Function in Excel returns the numerical position of ... search_text is the character or substring you want to locate, and text_to_search_in is the larger text string you want to search.

We followed up that tip with “Using Excel’s Find and Mid to extract a substring when you don ... this technique doesn’t require any formulas! If there’s a delimiter, Excel can parse ...