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MS Office Forum / Excel / New Users / July 2006Right to left search
Does anyone know of a simple way to search text strings from right to left instead of left to right? I can buy software for this but thought there should be a non-cost option somewhere out there. I am using Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (2) Hi Martin, Can you give an example of what you're trying to do?  SignatureKind regards, Niek Otten Microsoft MVP - Excel | Does anyone know of a simple way to search text strings from right to left | instead of left to right? I can buy software for this but thought there | should be a non-cost option somewhere out there. | I am using Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (2) Sorry, should have done this earlier. I have a list of names of the type name1spacename2space....spacesurname and I am trying to quickly separate the surname from the rest. For example, three such names could be: John James John Jack James John Jack Jeremy James with the surname being James in all three cases. > Hi Martin, > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > | should be a non-cost option somewhere out there. > | I am using Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (2) Easiest to do in several steps, once you're satisfied you can combine them in one formula. First: how many spaces are there? =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","")) Now substitute the last one by a special character, like #, also with a SUBSTITUTE formula Now find the position of that character with the FIND function Take the part to the right of this character with RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-the position you just found) SignatureKind regards, Niek Otten Microsoft MVP - Excel | Sorry, should have done this earlier. | I have a list of names of the type name1spacename2space....spacesurname and [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] | > | should be a non-cost option somewhere out there. | > | I am using Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (2) =RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND("^^",SUBSTITUTE(A1," ", "^^",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))))) > Sorry, should have done this earlier. > I have a list of names of the type name1spacename2space....spacesurname and [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > | should be a non-cost option somewhere out there. > > | I am using Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (2) SignatureDave Peterson
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