Extract usernames from E-mail IDs [using LEFT and FIND formulas in Excel] Posted on January 19th, 2010 in Learn Excel - 87 comments Today we will learn to use Excel’s LEFT and FIND formulas. But what fun it is to learn a new formula on a Tuesday? So, we will actually learn to use these formulas to solve the problem: “extract the username from an email ID” How is an email ID structured? Any email ID contains 2 parts – user name and domain name. For eg. in my email id – chandoo.d@gmail.com – chandoo.d is user name and gmail.com is domain. So how do we get the user name out?
As you can see, username always starts at left and goes up to the symbol “@”. This is where LEFT() and FIND() formulas enter the scene. What does Excel LEFT formula do? Excel LEFT formula will let you cut a portion of text from left. So, to get the email username, we need to get all the letters in the left of email ID up to the location of “@” symbol. We use FIND formula. FIND formula gives the location of one text in another. FIND will throw an error (#VALUE!) (syntax and examples) Your homework:
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