Extract from Cell with less helper columns...

How_Do_I

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Hello are there any alternatives to my helper, helper, helper columns please...!

Excel Workbook
ABCDEFG
1x;;;;;;;;xx;SITE NAME: XI/A/58;xxxxxxxxxxx133118117XI/A/58
2x;SITE NAME: XI/A/15A;xxxxxxxxxxx32219118XI/A/15A
3xxxxxxxx;SITE NAME: XI/A/5;xxxxxxxxxxx102717116XI/A/5
4xxxx;SITE NAME: XI/A/115A;xxxxxxxxxxx62620119XI/A/115A
5xxxx;SITE NAME: XI/A/115;xxxxxxxxxxx62519118XI/A/115
Sheet1
 
Hello Rick, It is the second semi-colon from the left that ends my area of interest in the cell... After that, there are a varying number of semi-colons in the data. The biggest amount of characters in a cell in the batch of data that I'm currently looking at is 826... I plastered my sample data with semi-colons to test the formula I had before I asked for help combining it all together... sorry to mislead you.
 
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Hello Rick, It is the second semi-colon from the left that ends my area of interest in the cell... After that, there are a varying number of semi-colons in the data. The biggest amount of characters in a cell in the batch of data that I'm currently looking at is 826... I plastered my sample data with semi-colons to test the formula I had before I asked for help combining it all together... sorry to mislead you.
Is that first semi-colon directly in front of "SITE NAME" text as some of your examples in Message #1 show? If so, this formula should work for you...

=MID(A1,FIND(";",A1)+12,FIND(";",A1,FIND(";",A1)+1)-FIND(";",A1)-12)
 
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