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Find/use part of a text string

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    Find/use part of a text string

    Hi All,

    This is something ive been trying to work out for a while now and its bugging me. It would make my time at work easier and i really should learn how to do it.

    I get an excel sheet and each cell has alot of text in...

    Example -

    Emma UK £250.00 Often 26/11/08 12:30

    And i need to get all the information into rows.

    I usually copy and paste it but this takes ages...

    What i would like is a formula which looks at each word in turn and tell me how many letters are in it...then i can use LEFT or RIGHT to work this out for me.

    Any help would be good.

    Thanks in advance.

    Emma

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    How about Data > Text to columns?
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    Find/use part of a text string

    Not sure what you ultimately want to do, but see if this gets you pointed
    in the right direction:

    A2 contains a text string that includes spaces

    This formula returns the first word:
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    Copy that formula across through K2.
    Those formulas will list each word in cell A2

    Is that something you can work with?
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