Split information from a Cell

[GENESIS]

Hi All,

I need your help please

I am Brazilian and I am currently working in an English Version of Excel 2010 and I cannot find a formula I used to work a lot while using the brazilian version.

I have a list in Excel and it contains numbers and text in the same cell and I use to split them in 2 different cells using the function

=LEFT(TEXT,[nrum_chars]) and then =EXACT.TEXT (TEXT,INICIAL POSITION,[nrum_chars]).

It is not working now. Do you know the equivalent in the English version ?


So for a cell A1 containing :


14568 text text text text


I use to do:


=Left(A1,5) and it returns '14568' on cell b1, then

=Exact.text (A1,7,25) and it returns 'text tex text text' on cell C1

so as a result:


A1 = 14568 text text text text

B1 = 14568

C1 = text text text text


Does anyone can help me with this ??


Thanks

Genesis

 

[Smallman]

Hi Genesis


Is the numerical data always 5 characters long. The Left formula to grab the numbers you used should work. So for the second part (grabbing the text) use the following.


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


It uses the assumption that text will appear after the first space. So number text text etc.


If for some whismical reason your left formula does not work or you are experiencing differing length numbers you could back solve the above formula to for the Left as such.


=VALUE(LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1))


This should give you a split between the two.


Take care


Smallman

 

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