This workbook contains the advanced text formula examples

Counting specific characters in a cell

Babba-booey 1 <-- case-sensitive
Babba-booey 4 <-- not case-sensitive

Counting the occurrences of a substring

Blonde on Blonde Blonde 2 <-- case-sensitive
Blonde on Blonde blonde 2 <-- not case-sensitive

Removing trailing minus signs

546 546
093- -93
356- -356
1- -1

Creating an ordinal number

1 1st
3 3rd
45 45th
122 122nd

Displaying a column letter

5E
9817 Err:502
15634 Err:502
16385 Err:502

Extracting a file name from a path

c:\windows\text.txt text.txt

Extracting the first word of a string

Do you use Excel? Do

Extracting the last word of a string

Do you use Excel? Excel? <-- Assumes at least one space
ExcelFormulas ExcelFormulas <-- Works if no spaces are present

Extracting all but the first word of a string

Do you use Excel? you use Excel?

Extracting first name, middle names, last names

John Q. Public John Q. Err:501 Q.
Lisa Smith Lisa Err:501 Err:501
J. R. Robins J. R. Err:501 Err:501
Cher Cher Err:501 Err:501

Removing titles from names

Mrs. James Jones James Jones
Dr. Richard Speck Richard Speck
Mr. Ed Ed

Counting words in a cell

how many words? 3
134569 6
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<-- Alternate formula for middle name
<-- Alternate formula for middle name
<-- Alternate formula for middle name