Extracting Text of a variable length from the middle of a string

Anthea

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Hello, please could someone advise me ... this is probably simple for experienced users but I am stumped :eeek:

I have strings similar to this (Date, Place, Amount)

30/12/2017 Ultra City Harrismith 393.29

and need to extract the text in the middle ... extracting the date and amount are easy (LEFT or RIGHT function), the text in the middle is causing me frustration. The text will always start in the same position (12) but varies in length

Many thanks
 

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Copy the range. Select a blank cell. Right-click, Paste Special, then choose Transpose.
Assuming the text in the cell will never be longer than 300 characters...

=TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",REPT(" ",300)),300,(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))-1)*300))
 
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No it will never be anything near 300 characters
Thank you so much for your help ... I am off to do that!
:-)
 
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