Comments on: Excel Length Formula

By: john

john — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:26:39 +0000

P.S. You might have to replace the quotes with quotes in excel if the copy/paste doesn’t work correctly.

John

By: john

john — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:26:03 +0000

Hi D – try this formula:

=IF(ISERROR(FIND(” “,A1)),A1,TRIM(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(“*”,SUBSTITUTE(A1,” “,”*”,LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,” “,”")))))))

It will return the word if there is only 1 word, or the last word if there is a series of words. Hope that helps.

By: D Dixon

D Dixon — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:31:29 +0000

I was going nuts with the RIGHT fcn because I dared to ask myself how I would find the last words. But I see from the formula, the text has to be just two words long with a space in between to work. Is there a way for this or any function to work on longer text.
For example, we have the string “Let’s play a game”
Is there a formula out there that would be able to tell me that the last word in that string is “game”?
HOW! Please share because this question is driving me nuts!

By: ganesh dhyani

ganesh dhyani — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:24:43 +0000

mor help regading function