Formula help please - Find & Left?

[Allan Walker]

Hi,

I am trying to extract any string inside an open bracket ( and closed bracket ) in a cell. The cell data can contain a string prefixing the open bracket, but thankfully, there is no string suffixing the closed bracket.

The string lengths inside and outside the brackets are variable in the dataset, otherwise I would have been able to do a "RIGHT" or "LEFT" or "MID", so now I'm stuck!

Prior

Excel Workbook
	G	H	I	J
1	MARY COOK(PR271)	*	YASMIN AKHTAR (YA1)	*
2	BETTY YATES(WD305)	*	YASMIN AKHTAR (YA1)	*
3	JOAN OWEN(PR304)	*	YASMIN AKHTAR (YA1)	*
4	AVTAR SINGH(WD401)	*	YASMIN AKHTAR (YA1)	*
5	HILDA *YOUNG(WD405)	*	YASMIN AKHTAR (YA1)	*
6	PERCY COLEMAN(WD410)	*	YASMIN AKHTAR (YA1)	*
7	AUGUSTA BELL(WD273)	*	YASMIN AKHTAR (YA1)	*
Sheet 1

Result

Excel Workbook
	G	H	I	J
1	MARY COOK(PR271)	(PR271)	YASMIN AKHTAR (YA1)	(YA1)
Sheet 1

I am using Office 2003 with Windows XP SP3

Many thanks in advance,

Allan

 

[Comfy]

<b>Excel 2007</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";background-color: #FFFFFF;border: 1px solid;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><colgroup><col width="25px" style="background-color: #E0E0F0" /><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;text-align: center;color: #161120"><th></th><th>A</th><th>B</th><th>C</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">1</td><td style=";">werbgwr(werg)</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">(werg)</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">2</td><td style=";">wbtqvq4q3(vew)</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">(vew)</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">3</td><td style=";">wevrwerverw(wvebr)Wrbtw</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">(wvebr)</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="width:3.6em;font-weight:bold;margin:0;padding:0.2em 0.6em 0.2em 0.5em;border: 1px solid #A6AAB6;border-top:none;text-align: center;background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">Sheet1</p><br /><br /><table width="85%" cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";border: 2px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;padding: 0.4em;background-color: #FFFFFF" ><tr><td style="padding:6px" ><b>Worksheet Formulas</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" width="100%" rules="all" style="border: 1px solid;text-align:center;background-color: #FFFFFF;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120"><th width="10px">Cell</th><th style="text-align:left;padding-left:5px;">Formula</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">C1</th><td style="text-align:left">=MID(<font color="Blue">A1,FIND(<font color="Red">"(",A1</font>),(<font color="Red">FIND(<font color="Green">")",A1</font>)</font>)-FIND(<font color="Red">"(",A1</font>)+1</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">C2</th><td style="text-align:left">=MID(<font color="Blue">A2,FIND(<font color="Red">"(",A2</font>),(<font color="Red">FIND(<font color="Green">")",A2</font>)</font>)-FIND(<font color="Red">"(",A2</font>)+1</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">C3</th><td style="text-align:left">=MID(<font color="Blue">A3,FIND(<font color="Red">"(",A3</font>),(<font color="Red">FIND(<font color="Green">")",A3</font>)</font>)-FIND(<font color="Red">"(",A3</font>)+1</font>)</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></table><br />

 

[jim may]

Excel Workbook
	G	H	I	J
1	MARY COOK (PR271)	(PR271)	YASMIN AKHTAR (YA1)	(YA1)
2	BETTY YATES (WD305)	(WD305)	YASMIN AKHTAR (YA1)	(YA1)
3	JOAN OWEN (PR304)	(PR304)	YASMIN AKHTAR (YA1)	(YA1)
Sheet1

Excel 2007

Cell Formulas
Range	Formula
H1	=MID(G1,FIND("(",G1),12)
J1	=MID(I1,FIND("(",I1),12)

 

[Allan Walker]

Jim, Comfy...

Outstanding, many thanks!

Allan