Excel 2024: Text Before or After a Specific Delimiter

October 15, 2024 - by Bill Jelen

The new TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions debuted on March 16, 2022 for Microsoft 365 Insiders. These functions isolate the text before or after a specific delimiter.

The function syntax requires some text and the delimiter. Optional arguments: instance_num for which delimiter, match_mode for case sensitive, match_end prevents an #N/A if the delimiter is not found. TEXTBEFORE("Cher"," ") returns #N/A. =TEXTBEFORE("Cher"," ",,,1) returns Cher.

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