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Excel is one of the most powerful and versatile tools available for data analysis and management. An important feature of Excel is its ability to extract text from cells. One such feature is the ability to extract text right of a comma. This feature is especially useful for working with data sets that contain multiple values in the same cell. By using this feature, users can quickly and easily separate out individual values from a single cell, making data analysis and manipulation much easier. This article will provide an overview of how to use Excel to extract text right of a comma.
You can use the following formula to extract all of the text to the right of a comma in some cell in Excel:
=TEXTAFTER(A2, ",")
This particular formula extracts all of the text in cell A2 that occurs after the first comma is encountered.
The following example shows how to use this formula in practice.
Example: Extract Text Right of Comma in Excel
Suppose we have the following list in Excel that provides a description of different basketball players including their team, position, and rating:
Now suppose that we would like to extract only the text in each cell to the right of the first comma.
To do so, we can type the following formula into cell B2:
=TEXTAFTER(A2, ",")
We can then click and drag this formula down to each remaining cell in column B:
Column B now displays only the text to the right of the first comma of each cell in column A.
If you would instead like to display all text to the right of the last comma of each cell in column A, you could type the following formula into cell B2 instead:
=TEXTAFTER(A2, ",", -1)
We can then click and drag this formula down to each remaining cell in column B:
Note that the third argument in the TEXTAFTER function specifies the instance of the delimiter to extract the text after.
By using -1 we specify that all text should be extracted to the right of the last instance of a comma.
Note: You can find the complete documentation for the TEXTAFTER function .