Sunday, 18 September 2011

Extracting all but the first word of a string

Extracting all but the first word of a string

The following formula returns the contents of cell A1, except for the first word:
=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(“ “,A1,1))
If cell A1 contains 2010 Operating Budget, the formula then returns Operating Budget.
This formula returns an error if the cell contains only one word. The formula below solves this
problem and returns an empty string if the cell does not contain multiple words:
=IFERROR(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(“ “,A1,1)),””)
For compatibility with versions prior to Excel 2007, use this formula:
=IF(ISERR(FIND(“ “,A1)),””,RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(“ “,A1,1)))

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