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how to return a text value (2-5 characters) from kolum A to B

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    how to return a text value (2-5 characters) from kolum A to B

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    I need help to return part of a text in kolum A to kolum B. The text is between 2-5 characters. I want it to look someting like the example below. Would be very grateful if someone can help me with this, becasue im stuck.

    kolum A
    MINILONG CHF A
    MINILONG OLJA C
    MINILONG BP C
    MINILONG SP500 E

    kolum B
    CHF
    OLJA
    BP
    SP500
    Last edited by edwardh; 07-26-2011 at 04:36 AM.

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    Re: how to return a text value (2-5 characters) from kolum A to B

    Hi,

    It looks to me like you want to extract the second "word" from a group of 3?

    =LEFT(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(" ",A1)),FIND(" ",RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(" ",A1))))
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