Struggling with mid/find

dommmm

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Hi,
I'm wondering how best to approach this...

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The formula I have in I2 is:

=IF(RIGHT(H2,5)="00000",IF(ISERROR(MID(F2,FIND("LOCDIFF",F2)+9,FIND(":",F2,FIND("LOCDIFF",F2))-FIND("LOCDIFF",F2)-12)),H2,MID(F2,FIND("LOCDIFF",F2)+9,FIND(":",F2,FIND("LOCDIFF",F2))-FIND("LOCDIFF",F2)-12)),"")

Basically - if the number in column H ends with 5 zeros, then I want it to find return the number (without the preceding - ) in F after "LOCDIFF" . It works fine until there's 2 "LOCDIFF" (the highlighted ones)
(the ISERROR copes with any that don't have LOCDIFF in F)

Advice much appreciated as it's giving me a headache!
 

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Maybe:

=IF(RIGHT(H2,5)="00000",TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(F2," ",REPT(" ",99)),FIND("-",SUBSTITUTE(F2," ",REPT(" ",99)))+1,99)),"")

It finds the string between the - and the next space.
 
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