This workbook contains the advanced text formula examples
Counting specific characters in a cell
Babba-booey 1 <-- case-sensitive Babba-booey 4 <-- not case-sensitive
Counting the occurrences of a substring
Blonde on Blonde Blonde 2 <-- case-sensitive Blonde on Blonde blonde 2 <-- not case-sensitive
Creating an ordinal number
1 1st 3 3rd 45 45th 122 122nd
Displaying a column letter
5E 9817 NMO 15634 WCH 16385 Err:502
Extracting a file name from a path
c:\windows\text.txt text.txt
Extracting the first word of a string
Do you use Excel? Do
Extracting the last word of a string
Do you use Excel? Excel? <-- Assumes at least one space ExcelFormulas ExcelFormulas <-- Works if no spaces are present
Extracting all but the first word of a string
Do you use Excel? you use Excel?
Extracting first name, middle names, last names
John Q. Public John Q. Public Q. <-- Alternate formula for middle name Lisa Smith Lisa Smith <-- Alternate formula for middle name J. R. Robins J. R. Robins R. <-- Alternate formula for middle name Cher Cher
Removing titles from names
Mrs. James Jones James Jones Dr. Richard Speck Richard Speck Mr. Ed Ed
Counting words in a cell
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