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    EXTRACT all characters from a string

    Hi guys - still having a very blonde moment.... am trying to extract all characters from a string AFTER the -

    tried this but am getting #value error

    =MID(A29,FIND("-",A29)+1,100)

    for eg

    I have

    Age - blahblah

    i want to extract blahblah

    Thanks
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    Re: EXTRACT all characters from a string

    I would be inclined to use REPLACE

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    Your current approach is ok (assuming you have fewer than 100 chars post hyphen) but you would get the error you describe if there were no hyphen present

    see also TRIM if you want to remove leading / trailing spaces etc...

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    Re: EXTRACT all characters from a string

    Thanks dude

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