How do I remove everything in a cell that comes before the final set of characters "..."
In this example of how the data in the cells appears, I would like to have a column next to this that would have just "Melbourne" (if I could eliminate the ending period "." too that would be great.
ACE.AU VIC..Melbourne.
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v A B 1 ACE.AU VIC..Melbourne. Melbourne
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Your example data doesn't contain ... it contains only TWO periods ..
=SUBSTITUTE((RIGHT(A3,FIND("...",A3)-1)),".","")
This won't work properly if you have a period within the name,e.g. St. John.
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Ensure you describe your problem clearly, I have little time available to solve these problems and do not appreciate numerous changes to them.
Your description says "..." but your example shows "..". I will assume the example is the correct one.
This will remove the front part and also the final character. It does not check to see if the final character is a dot, I assumed it is always there.
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AlKey...That solution is is perfect. Thank you!
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