Hi
I'm hoping someone can help me with how to extact specific text (text that follows '#'), from one column (text, with varying length). In the attached example, I have worked out (with thanks to whoever posted that to the web) how to extract the first occurence (shown in Column D) from Column C. That solves my problem where there is only one occurence (or none, when i get an error 'VALUE!' messsage).
But i can't work out how to extract subsequent examples of '#[text]. If i can recreate Column C without the extracted text now in Column D (e.g. Col E=Col C minus Col D), I could replicate the previous process and extract any second #[text] again, and continue that process till I get no more cells without an occurence of #text]. That's a bit fiddly, but i can easily do that. Or someone smart will undoubtedly have a simpler way to do it....
So can someone suggest how to either
a) Look in Column C, search for text including '#', put the first occurence of '#[text] in Col D, the next in Col E, etc, until there are no more occurences of '#', (that would be my provided solution, OR
b) tell me how to omit specified selected text (i.e. first extraction of #[text]) from a cell, so i can re-run the extraction formula to search for additional occurrences of #[text]t?
I hope that is clear... thank you very much in advance if you have a suggestion...
regards
Sue
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