How to Extract the last N Words from Text String in Excel

Excel is a tool for storing and managing a large amount of data. Data is entered in a rectangular block, which we called a cell. This tool can be used to perform different tasks like creating graphs and analyzing trends, to get insights from the data. It is primarily used for financial data analysis by accounting professionals. Let's learn how to extract the last N-word in Excel. 

For example, we have a string "Welcome to GeeksforGeeks platform" and we need to extract the last 2 words from the string, then the output should be "GeeksforGeeks Platform".

How to Extract the Last N-Word in Excel

For demonstration, we will use the following string "Hello Geeks, Welcome to the GeeksforGeeks Platform". As an example, We will extract the last 5 words of the given string. Follow the below steps,

Step 1: Count the number of spaces in the string. The formula for counting spaces,

LEN(cell_name)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(cell_name," ",""))

Example:

Output

Step 2: Replace the fifth space from the last with any special character like @. Formula is,

SUBSTITUTE(cell_name," ","@",(LEN(cell_name)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(cell_name," ",""))-5+1)).

Example:

Output

Step 3: Get the location of the special character. Formula is,

LEN(cell_name)-FIND("@",SUBSTITUTE(cell_name," ","@",(LEN(cell_name)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(cell_name," ",""))-5+1)))

Example:

Output

Step 4: Extract all the characters after the special characters. Formula is,

RIGHT(cell_name,LEN(cell_name)-FIND("@",SUBSTITUTE(cell_name," ","@",(LEN(cell_name)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(cell_name," ",""))-5+1))))

Example:

Output

So, the final formula to get the last 5 words from the string is,

 = RIGHT(cell_name,LEN(cell_name)-FIND("@",SUBSTITUTE(cell_name," ","@",(LEN(cell_name)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(cell_name," ",""))-5+1))))

Replace 5 with the value of N to get the last N words from the string.

Formula to Extract Last-N words in Excel

 = RIGHT(cell_name,LEN(cell_name)-FIND("@",SUBSTITUTE(cell_name," ","@",(LEN(cell_name)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(cell_name," ",""))-N+1))))

In this article, I've shown you how to get the last n words out of a cell. Hopefully, this helps you out, I advise you to read more articles on Excel if you want to understand more. I appreciate your time and look forward to hearing from you soon!