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- How to extract text before or after dash from cells in Excel?
To extract the text string before or after a dash, the following simple formulas may help you Extract text before dash: Please enter this formula: =LEFT(A2,FIND("-",A2)-1) into a blank cell besides your data, see screenshot:
- How to Extract Text After a Character in Excel (6 Ways)
Method 1 – Using MID and FIND Functions to Extract Text After a Character We’ll use the following dataset We’ll extract the text after the hyphen (“-”) Steps Insert the following formula in Cell C5:
- Excel: How to Remove Characters After Dash - Statology
You can use the following formula in Excel to remove characters after a dash in a cell: =TEXTBEFORE( A2 , "-") This particular formula removes all characters after the dash (and including the dash) from cell A2
- Remove text before, after or between two characters in Excel - Ablebits
To eliminate text before a given character, type the character preceded by an asterisk (*char) To remove text after a certain character, type the character followed by an asterisk (char*) To delete a substring between two characters, type an asterisk surrounded by 2 characters (char*char) Leave the Replace with box empty Click Replace all
- Get the characters before and after the - (dash) - Excel Help Forum
Just below the word Title you will see a dropdown with the word No prefix If the text from the right side has another hyphens, the action "select column -> Data -> Text to columns -> Delimited -> write - in box -> Finnish" will spread your text in columns In my case, by following teylyn hint, this has worked: =MID (A1;FIND ("-";A1)+1,99; 1000)
- Extract Text After second dash? | MrExcel Message Board
Do you want the original cell to be intact (leave the data after the second dash), or do you want it removed from the first cell and placed in the next cell? The first can be done using a formula, the second would require a macro
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