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    Find a word and extract strings with next 20 charactors to a cell

    Good Day All,

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    Kindly assist me in providing a solution for the following.I attached an excel from an extract from a portion of report from our accounting program. There one column "L" contains narrations, on which Excel have to search word "OLT" from column "L" and bring string of 20 characters / numbers to respective column "T"

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    Re: Find a word and extract strings with next 20 charactors to a cell

    hi Jayaraj. you can use:
    =MID(L2,SEARCH("OLT",L2)+4,20)

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    Good Day

    Thanks for assisting. It is working fine

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    Jayaraj

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