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This Workbook Contains The Advanced Text Formula Examples

This document contains examples of advanced text formulas in Excel for tasks like counting characters in a cell, counting substrings, creating ordinal numbers, extracting parts of strings like file names and words, and more. It provides the formula, the input text, and the expected output for each example formula.

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This Workbook Contains The Advanced Text Formula Examples

This document contains examples of advanced text formulas in Excel for tasks like counting characters in a cell, counting substrings, creating ordinal numbers, extracting parts of strings like file names and words, and more. It provides the formula, the input text, and the expected output for each example formula.

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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 E
45 AS AS
256 IV IV
257 IW

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

Removing titles from names


Mrs. James Jones James Jones
Dr. Richard Speck Dr. Richard Speck
Mr. Ed Ed

Counting words in a cell


how many words? 3
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