You can use the following syntax to extract the text after the last comma in a particular cell in Excel:

=TEXTAFTER(A2, ",", -1)

This particular formula extracts the text after the last comma in cell A2.

The following example shows how to use this formula in practice.

Example: Extract Text After Last Comma in Excel

Suppose we have the following dataset in Excel in which column A contains a description of basketball players including their team, position, and classification:

Suppose we would like to extract the text after the last comma in the cells in column A.

We can type the following formula into cell C2 to do so:

=TEXTAFTER(A2, ",", -1)

We can then click and drag this formula down to each remaining cell in column C:

Column C now contains the text in column A after the last comma.

For example:

• The formula extracts Good from Mavs,Guard,Good
• The formula extracts Great from Mavs,Forward,Great
• The formula extracts Bad from Mavs,Forward,Bad

And so on.

How This Formula Works

This function uses the following syntax:

TEXTAFTER(text, delimiter, [instance_num], [match_mode], [match_end], [if_not_found])

where:

• text: Text to search
• delimiter: Character or substring to extract text after
• instance_num (optional): Instance of delimiter after which to extract text (default is 1)
• match_mode (optional): 0 = case-sensitive (default), 1 = case-insensitive
• match_end (optional): Treat end of text as delimiter (disabled by default)
• if_not_found (optional): Value to return if delimiter is not found

Recall that we used the following syntax to extract the text after the last comma in a cell:

=TEXTAFTER(A2, ",", -1)

By using a value of -1 for the instance_num argument, we were able to specify that we wanted to extract the text after the last instance of a comma.

Note: You can find the complete documentation for the TEXTAFTER function in Excel .

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