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    Extract each substring from current cell

    Hi friends,

    A1 cell data is : Microsoft (MS) Google (G) Yahoo (Yho)

    I want to extract each words who start with ( and end with ).

    B1 will be (MS)
    C1 will be (G)
    D1 will be (Yho)

    How can I do that?

    Thank you

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    Re: Extract each sub string from current cell

    Here are two solutions. The first requires "helper" cells. It's more efficient but if you don't care for that you can construct "megaformulas" as shown in the second solution.
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    Re: Extract each sub string from current cell

    Try this one:
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    Re: Extract each sub string from current cell

    Another single cell alternative perhaps:

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    Re: Extract each sub string from current cell

    Quote Originally Posted by 6StringJazzer View Post
    Here are two solutions. The first requires "helper" cells. It's more efficient but if you don't care for that you can construct "megaformulas" as shown in the second solution.
    Dear 6StringJazzer,

    Complex one is good for me But when I look your example it couldn't found 3rd (Yho)

    Thanks for all friends for their suggestions

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    Re: Extract each substring from current cell

    For last word I used
    =RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-FIND("^^",SUBSTITUTE(A2,"(","^^",LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"(",""))))+1)

    But still don't like this solution because if I have more than 4 parantheses it will crash

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    Re: Extract each substring from current cell

    I had an error, which is corrected in the attached but the formula becomes very unwieldy compared to the ones above.

    I have also added a UDF here if you care to use one, also in the attached.

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