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    Re: Formula to Find a specific text within a text string

    =left(a1,5)
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    Re: Formula to Find a specific text within a text string

    the "sales" can be anywhere in the text string. it could be in the middle, first, or last...

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    Re: Formula to Find a specific text within a text string

    O.K. then.

    If A1 contains the full string and B1 contains "Sales"

    then the formula:

    =FIND(B1,A1) will tell you where in A1, B1 can be found. For example if A1 contains:
    hfshfjssalesvcjvh
    the formula will return 8

    Is this what you need???

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