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    Skipping the first word in a text string

    I have 800 rows of data in a column with the same syntax. The string of text reads "Director, Business Systems Analyst Director" I want to copy the text into an adjacent column without the first word so it reads "Business Systems Analyst Director". The length of the first word is exactly the same in each row, however the text string after the first word varies. Any Ideas?

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    Re: Skipping the first word in a text string

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    Re: Skipping the first word in a text string

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    Re: Skipping the first word in a text string

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    Re: Skipping the first word in a text string

    Sandy666, this worked thanks much

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    Re: Skipping the first word in a text string

    If there is a comma "," in each cell, then you will be able to siphon the first word from the rest of the string using =TRIM(LEFT(A2,FIND(",",A2)-1)). Do this on B2. The result here will give you Director. Then on C2 put in this =TRIM(MID(A2,FIND(",",A2)+1,LEN(A2))). Finally on D2 concatenate the results of B2 and C2 with =B2&" "&C2

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