Formula to remove first and last word

DHayes

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Good Day,
I have searched and I can't find a formula to remove the first word and last word in excel.

What I have
Physician Ranchod Rakesh Naidoo (Rakesh)

Result I would like to achieve.
Ranchod Rakesh Naidoo
 

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Use =UPPER() for upper case, =LOWER() for lower case, and =PROPER() for proper case. PROPER won't capitalize second c in Mccartney
Rick's formula works well Only if the original name is Exactly 5 words, no more, no less.
Okay, fair enough. Here is my formula modified to works with whatever number of words there are...

=TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",REPT(" ",100)),100,100*(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))-1)))
 
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