Hello...I am trying to create a function that will populate a cell with the
first three text characters that follow a period (".") from a text string in
another cell. Can anyone tell me whether there is a function that will allow
me to do this?

Thanks,
Tom

Hi Tom

you can use
=MID(A1,SEARCH(".",A1)+1,3)

Regards
JulieD


"tommcbrny" wrote in message
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Hello...I am trying to create a function that will populate a cell with
the
first three text characters that follow a period (".") from a text string
in
another cell. Can anyone tell me whether there is a function that will
allow
me to do this?

Thanks,
Tom

One way:

=MID(A1,FIND(".",A1)+1,3)

If A1 might not contain a ".":

=IF(COUNTIF(A1,"*.*"),MID(A1,FIND(".",A1)+1,3),"")




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tommcbrny wrote:

Hello...I am trying to create a function that will populate a cell with the
first three text characters that follow a period (".") from a text string in
another cell. Can anyone tell me whether there is a function that will allow
me to do this?

Thanks,
Tom