Using Trim with wildcards possible?

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RK - 31 Jan 2008 19:49 GMT

I am trying to trim a spreadsheet with a lot of text similar to the following
text below, where I want all characters BEFORE the APCo: 30/ deleted. Someone
told me to use TRIM(*30/ ) as a wildcard rather than count out specific
characters, but I can't get the formula to work. Any guidance would be
appreciated. Thanks.

CABLE-FACILITIES/CABLEPLANT/ APCo: 30/ 21697-CDW DIRECT LLC / TR# 1,750/1 /
Ref# DFZ6761

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PCLIVE - 31 Jan 2008 20:04 GMT

With your data in A1, try the following:

=RIGHT(A1,(LEN(A1)+1)-FIND("APCo: 30/",A1))

HTH,
Paul

>I am trying to trim a spreadsheet with a lot of text similar to the
>following
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> /
> Ref# DFZ6761

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