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Text Alan Jones Bob Smith Carol Williams Cardiff ABC123 Length 10 9 14 7 6 =LEN(C4) =LEN(C5) =LEN(C6) =LEN(C7) =LEN(C8)

What Does It Do ? This function counts the number of characters, including spaces and numbers, in a piece of text. Syntax =LEN(Text) Formatting No Special formatting is needed. Example This example shows how the =LEN() function is used in a formula which extracts the second name from a text entry containing both first and second names. Original Text Carol Williams

=FIND(" ",C24) This is the position of the space. =LEN(C24)-FIND(" ",C24) This is the length of the second name. Calculated by taking the overall length of the complete name and subtracting the position of the space. =RIGHT(C24,LEN(C24)-FIND(" ",C24)) This is just the second name. Calculated by using the =RIGHT() function to extract the rightmost characters up to the length of the second name.

Carol Williams