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Excel return value of second search character in substring
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| This is the text to search, in cell A1: | |
| Andy Is Awesome | |
| Use the =FIND function to get the index of the first space: | |
| =FIND(<text to search for>, <text to search in>, <index to start at>) | |
| =FIND(" ", A1) | |
| Returns 5 | |
| Nesting another find into the formula under the index parameter gives you the second space. Incrementing by 1 in the index field starts the search after the first space. | |
| =FIND(" ",A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1) | |
| Returns 8 | |
| This is useful for separating data that has been concatenated together separated by spaces. |
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