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hello -
can you use the Mid function to seek out a string that starts with a certain letter up to the first empty space?
Thanks,
hello -
can you use the Mid function to seek out a string that starts with a certain letter up to the first empty space?
Thanks,
The Mid function can't be used to search for anything.
If you want to search for a character/space in a string use InStr (VBA) or FIND/SEARCH (worksheet).
Once you've found the character/space then you can use Mid if you want to extract particular data.
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For mine I used:
Trying to get to the string that starts with 'P' and rteturn it up until the first empty space.
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It isn't 100% clear what you want but perhaps this.
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This function will return the first word that being with the letter "p".
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