What is mid in excel

Функция Mid

Возвращает значение типа Variant (String), содержащее указанное число символов строки.

Синтаксис

Синтаксис функции Mid состоит из следующих именованных аргументов:

Часть	Описание
строка	Обязательный аргумент. Строковое выражение, из которого возвращаются символы. Если строка содержит значение NULL, возвращается NULL.
начало	Обязательный аргумент. Long. Позиция символа в строке, с которой начинается забираемая часть. Если значение аргумента начало больше, чем число символов в строке, функция Mid возвращает строку нулевой длины («»).
длина	Необязательный аргумент. Variant (Long). Число возвращаемых символов. Если не указано или если меньше, чем символов длины в тексте (включая символ в начале), возвращаются все символы от начальной позиции до конца строки.

Примечания

Чтобы определить число символов в строке, используйте функцию Len.

Используйте функцию MidB для работы с содержащимися в строке байтами, например в языках с двухбайтовыми кодировками (DBCS). Вместо указания числа символов аргументы задают число байтов. Образец кода с использованием функции MidB приведен во втором примере.

Пример

В первом примере с помощью функции Mid возвращается указанное количество знаков строки.

Во втором примере с использованием функции MidB и определяемой пользователем функции (MidMbcs) также возвращаются знаки из строки. Отличие от первого примера состоит в том, что исходная строка представляет собой строку ANSI и ее длина выражена в байтах.

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MID, MIDB functions

This article describes the formula syntax and usage of the MID and MIDB function in Microsoft Excel.

Description

MID returns a specific number of characters from a text string, starting at the position you specify, based on the number of characters you specify.

MIDB returns a specific number of characters from a text string, starting at the position you specify, based on the number of bytes you specify.

These functions may not be available in all languages.

MID is intended for use with languages that use the single-byte character set (SBCS), whereas MIDB is intended for use with languages that use the double-byte character set (DBCS). The default language setting on your computer affects the return value in the following way:

MID always counts each character, whether single-byte or double-byte, as 1, no matter what the default language setting is.

MIDB counts each double-byte character as 2 when you have enabled the editing of a language that supports DBCS and then set it as the default language. Otherwise, MIDB counts each character as 1.

The languages that support DBCS include Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), and Korean.

Syntax

MID(text, start_num, num_chars)

MIDB(text, start_num, num_bytes)

The MID and MIDB function syntax has the following arguments:

Text Required. The text string containing the characters you want to extract.

Start_num Required. The position of the first character you want to extract in text. The first character in text has start_num 1, and so on.

If start_num is greater than the length of text, MID/MIDB returns «» (empty text).

If start_num is less than the length of text, but start_num plus num_chars exceeds the length of text, MID/MIDB returns the characters up to the end of text.

If start_num is less than 1, MID/MIDB returns the #VALUE! error value.

Num_chars Required for MID. Specifies the number of characters you want MID to return from text.

If num_chars is negative, MID returns the #VALUE! error value.

Num_bytes Required for MIDB. Specifies the number of characters you want MIDB to return from text, in bytes.

If num_bytes is negative, MIDB returns the #VALUE! error value.

Example

Copy the example data in the following table, and paste it in cell A1 of a new Excel worksheet. For formulas to show results, select them, press F2, and then press Enter. If you need to, you can adjust the column widths to see all the data.

Returns 5 characters from the string in A2, starting at the 1st character.

Returns 20 characters from the string in A2, starting at the 7th character. Because the number of characters to return (20) is greater than the length of the string (10), all characters, beginning with the 7th, are returned. No empty characters (spaces) are added to the end.

Because the starting point is greater than the length (10) of the string, empty text is returned.

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Excel MID Function – How To Use

The MID function returns a specific number of characters from the middle of the string after we state the starting position and the number of characters to extract. The MID Function in Excel is one of the text functions that allows us to get a substring from a stringtext as per our requirement

It is one of the most useful functions when we want to extract the middle name from the full name, the domain name from email IDs, or any substring between two characters.

Table of Contents

Syntax

The syntax of the MID function is as follows:

The MID function in Excel accepts three arguments and all three arguments are mandatory.

Arguments:

‘text‘ – This holds the value of the input text/string. A cell reference containing the input string or text enclosed in double quotes are both acceptable input values.
‘start_num‘ – The position of the first character we want to extract. It must be an integer/formula which indicates the starting position of the extraction.
‘num_chars‘ – Number of characters we wish to extract from the starting point. The num_chars argument indicates the character length of the return value.

Important Characteristics of the MID Function

One of the essential and basic characteristics of the MID function being a text function is that it always returns a text value regardless of the input value. Even if the retrieved substring is only made up of numbers, it will be in text format. Other important MID function features are as follows:

• If the value of start_num exceeds the length of input text, the MID function returns «» (empty text).
• If the start_num value is less than 1, the function returns a #VALUE! error.
• If the value of num_chars is a negative number, the MID function gives a #VALUE error.
• If the num_chars value is less than 1, then the MID function’s return value is an empty string, a blank cell.

Last of all, if the sum of the value of start_num and num_chars is greater than the total input text length, the MID function returns all the characters from start_num to the last character. This characteristic comes in very handy for certain conditions. We will find out in the examples below.

Examples of MID Function

The MID function can be used independently or can be combined with various other Excel functions such as SEARCH, FIND, LEN, and more. Let’s go through some examples to fully comprehend the usage and utility of the MID function.

Example 1: Basic Functionality of the MID Function

In the below example, we have taken 3 different instances and tried using the basic MID function.

In the first case, the input text/string is a full name ‘Cassie Martha Soros’ where we wish to extract the middle name –»Martha». So, using the MID function we apply the formula:

Here, the first parameter text is the cell reference B3. The second parameter start_num is the starting position which is 8 as the first name is 6 characters long, the space is the 7 th character and then we add 1 so that we reach the beginning of the middle name. Lastly, the third argument num_chars is the number of characters of the middle name which is 6.

The second instance is where we are trying to extract the house number and street address from the complete address in cell B4. We are checking if the MID function counts a special character (,) and also whether the MID function can return characters from the beginning of the text or only from the middle. The formula goes as follows:

The first parameter is B4, the input text. The second parameter is 1 as the house number is in the beginning. Finally, the third parameter is 13 which is the house number (3 characters long) combined with a comma, a space character, and then the street name which is 8 characters long. Hence our output, in this case, becomes ‘220, Kisvagen’.

In the last example, the input text is in cell B5, which is actually a number 123456789. To extract 4 digits from the second position, the formula would be:

Here, the output value is left aligned. Is it a text value? We have something to learn here, which we will find in the section below.

In the following example, we are trying to extract a substring from the input text after a special character. The dataset in column B in this example consists of Employee IDs; a combination of the department name, and a unique ID followed by the employee’s date of birth.

For instance, in the Employee ID TECH-1234-08051990, the employee belongs to the tech team, the unique ID is 1234, and the date of birth is 08 May 1990.

We want to extract the unique ID from each Employee ID. Using the MID function, we can extract it from the input string, but the issue is that the character length of the department name varies. Resultantly, the value of start_num varies.

Lucky for us, the department name is followed by a hyphen ‘-‘, and the employee ID is 4 characters long. Now, we can use the MID function combined with the FIND function. The FIND function will locate the hyphen’s ‘-‘ position, which will be the input value of start_num.

Use the FIND function as follows:

This formula locates the hyphen in B3 and returns 4 (the hyphen is the 4th character in B3). To use the FIND function as an input value for the start_num parameter, we must add 1 to this result because the unique ID begins from the 5th character of the text string and we don’t want to see the hyphen in the final result.

The value of num_chars shall be 4 as all the unique IDs in our example are 4-digit numbers. So, combining the FIND and MID functions, the final function is as follows:

And here’s how this formula extracts the unique IDs for us:

Imagine we have a data set of peoples’ names and are asked to extract first, middle and last names in different columns. Usually, we would want to use the LEFT function for the first name and the RIGHT function for the last name. However, the functionality of two different functions can be accomplished using the MID function alone.

Let’s learn how to extract first and last names using the MID function. We cannot simply use the MID function as the starting position for separating last names as the number of characters will vary for each name. Ergo, we will use the SEARCH function to our advantage and then merge it with the MID function.

We could have used the earlier mentioned FIND function too, but as we have understood the functionality of the FIND function, let’s try to learn the MID function with the SEARCH function here. Also, the SEARCH function is case insensitive and that will make our task even easier.

The first and last names are divided by a space, a common pattern we can make use of. The beginning position in the MID function will be the starting of the string, whereas the number of characters can be determined using the SEARCH function.

The position of the space » » is where the first name ends and hence, is the number of characters to be extracted. The space character is located in the name using the SEARCH function, which returns its position, from which we deduct 1 to delete the inclusion of the extra space.

Let’s try to put this logic in the form of an Excel formula.

Seeing the example ahead, the first name in cell B3 is ‘Simon Rogers’. If we used the MID function only on this cell, we would try:

However, this formula will not give us the required result for all other cells since all the names won’t be 5 letters.

Let’s generalize it so we can use it for the complete dataset.

As the first parameter, start_num remains the same for all the names,. To determine the second parameter, we must find the position of the space. To find the position of the space » » using the SEARCH function, the formula will go as follows:

Combining it with the MID function, the formula will become:

To remove the extra trailing space, subtract 1 from the position. The final formula will be:

Furthermore, can we use the same logic to extract the last name? Let’s find out.

To pull out the last name using the MID function, we can use the SEARCH function to point out the start_num parameter as the last name begins after the space. How to find the number of characters (num_chars) to extract?

As mentioned earlier, if the total of the start_num and num_chars is more than the length of the string, the MID function returns the remaining string from the start_num. So, utilizing that to our advantage, there are two ways to use the MID function.

The first one is fairly simple. Assuming that the total character length of names will never exceed 1000, we can assign 1000 to the num_chars parameter.

The SEARCH function will determine the position of the space » » using the formula:

This will be the input value of the first parameter start_num. Assigning 1000 to the second parameter, the formula will become:

To remove the extra leading spaces from the extracted last names, use the TRIM function. The final MID function will be used as follows:

Now we have the last names extracted by the MID and SEARCH functions and leading spaces removed by the TRIM function:

The second way is more elegant. Instead of an assumed number in the num_chars parameter, we can use the LEN function to determine the total length of the name and use that value in the num_chars parameter.

Combining the LEN & SEARCH functions with the MID function, the formula will be as follows:

Here, LEN function will return the total length of the input string, and SEARCH function will extract the position of the space » » in the string. The ultimate effect is similar to what we have seen in the previous formula. The location of the space character added to the total characters of B3 will obviously be more than the total characters in B3.

To polish it further, we can use the TRIM function to eliminate all the extra spaces.

Substring Between Two Delimiters

After practicing the above examples, we can extract a substring from a string after determining the position of the space » » or any other special character. Now, what if the input string is long with several delimiters? Just for clarity, one or more characters that divide text strings are known as delimiters, such as space ( ), quotes («), commas (,), semicolons (;), slashes (/) or pipes (|).

When we dive in further, there are two scenarios of extracting a substring from an input string between delimiters; first when they are different and second when the delimiters are the same. Let’s understand both cases using an example.

Let’s assume we have a set of email IDs, and for research purposes, we want to extract the domain name from each email ID to analyze which one is most preferred. The email ID structure goes as follows ‘[email protected]’, where ‘learning’ is a username and gmail is a domain name.

As we can see, we have two different delimiters (@) and (.) separating the domain name (gmail) from the rest of the string (username). So, to pull out the substring, we must locate the position of two delimiters where the first delimiter is the starting position (start_num), and using the second delimiter, we can calculate the number of characters to be extracted.

As we already know, the MID function consists of three arguments. The first argument is the cell reference to email ID (B3). The second argument is the starting position which can be calculated using the SEARCH function:

This formula will give us the position of the first delimiter (@). As we require the starting position to be one character after (@), we add 1.

Lastly, for the third argument (num_chars), we need the number of characters to be extracted. We can find the location of the second delimiter (.) and then subtract the position of the first delimiter. The formula goes as follows:

To finalize and remove the trailing space, subtract 1.

Putting it all together, the final MID function formula to extract the substring from two different characters is:

This is how our experiment turned out:

In the above examples, we already know how to extract the first and last name from the full name using the MID function. However, what about the middle name? We cannot simply use the basic MID function as the character length of middle names varies for each person.

However, in the previous example, we learned how to extract a substring between two delimiters.

As we will notice, there is a space ( ) before and after the middle name, separating it from the first & last name. We can find the position of two delimiters (in this case, both the delimiters are space characters) and extract the middle name from the full name.

In the given dataset in column B, we have the list of full names. Let’s take the example of the first name in cell B3.

The first parameter of the MID function is the input text which is cell B3. For the second parameter, that is start_num, if we find the position of the space before the middle name and then add 1 to it, we should have our argument input. Using the SEARCH function, the position of the first space » » can be determined using the following formula:

This returns 7 and if we do a quick count check, indeed the middle name’s first letter is the 7 th character of the text string.

Easy enough, right?

Now, to determine the number of characters to be returned, we can find the position of the second space » » (after the middle name) and subtract the position of the first space from it.

Remember, the SEARCH function has an additional third optional parameter start_num stating the starting position of the search within the string. This will come in handy here as there are two spaces in this text (full name). To find the position of the second space, the formula goes as follows:

Explaining further, we are telling the SEARCH function to find » » in B3 starting after the position of the first space. If we don’t use the nested SEARCH function, it will keep returning the position of the first space, and we don’t want that, do we?

This formula returns 11 which you can tally again. Now that we have the position of both the space characters 11-7 is the number of characters to extract. Combining all to finish our MID function, the formula goes as follows:

The MID function will return 4 characters from B3 starting from the character after the first space. The result is Dona and the rest can be seen below:

Forcing MID Function to Return Numbers

Like other text functions in Excel, the output value of the MID function is always in text format. Even if the input or output value contains only digits and looks like a number format, it is indeed in text format.

There are two ways to find if the output value is in text or number format. One is the innate nature of Excel to left align a text and right align a number. The second is to use the ISNUMBER function.

In this example, we multiply 99 with 200 and then extract the 2 digit of the result, starting from the second position. Using the MID function, the formula goes as follows

We know that 99*200 is 19800. We are trying to extract 2 digits out of it starting from the 2nd position and hence the result is 98.

However, if you notice the result here is left aligned. By default Excel aligns all the numbers to right and text to left. This hints that the result here is a text instead of a number.

This can be further proved with the ISNUMBER function, which also returns false implying that the result of the MID function is not a number.

To ensure that the MID function returns a number, use the VALUE function, which transforms a text value representing a number into a number. Wrap the MID function inside the VALUE function. The formula used will be:

As evident from the example, the return value of the MID function combined with the VALUE function is right aligned, and when checked with ISNUMBER function, the result is TRUE.

RIGHT Function vs LEFT Function vs MID Function

We have now understood several ways to use the MID function for various tasks. Similar to the MID function, there are two more text functions in Excel; LEFT & RIGHT functions. For better comprehension, we will attempt to use all three Excel functions on the same input string in the following example.

In this example, we have taken an input text/string in cell A2 «Smart, Easy & Effective»

We have used the LEFT function to extract the first word of the string «Smart». As it is 5 characters long, the LEFT function formula will be:

Unlike the MID function, the LEFT function doesn’t have the start_num argument since the starting point is automatically the first character from the left. The same is the case with the RIGHT function. It just extracts characters from right to left.

Similarly, we’ve used the RIGHT function on the input string to extract the last word «Effective» (9 characters long). The formula is:

Now the function that we know very well; the MID function. The formula used to extract the middle word «Easy» will be:

With that, we’ve discussed the ins and outs of the MID function. There are numerous other interesting things the MID function can manage such as returning a word beginning with a certain character (e.g. social media tags with the @ symbol such as @cholecakes, @popartillustrations), returning the nth word from a text string, and so on. Keep practicing and explore new ways to use the MID function.

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Источник

The MID function in Excel is a text function used to find out strings and return them from any middle part of the Excel. This formula extracts the result from the text or the string itself, the start number or position, and the string’s end position.

For example, suppose we have a table of products from A2:A5: “Dolls,” “Barbie,” “Bottle,” and “Pen.” in the worksheet. We need to fetch the substring from the given substring. When we type,  =MID(A2,2,4) returns “oll.” It will bring the substring from 2 characters and 4 letters from the 2nd position.

In simple words, the MID function in Excel extracts a small part of the string from the input string or returns a required number of characters from text or string.

MID Formula in Excel

The MID formula in excel has three compulsory parameters, i.e., text, start_num, num_chars.

Compulsory Parameters:

• text: It is a text from which you want to extract the substring.
• start_num: The starting position of the substring.
• num_chars: The numbers of characters of the substring.

How to Use MID Function in Excel? (with Examples)

The MID function in Excel is very simple and easy to use. Let us understand the working of the MID function in Excel by some MID formula examples. The MID function can be used as a worksheet function and VBA function.

You can download this MID Function Excel Template here – MID Function Excel Template

MID in Excel as a worksheet function.

Example #1

In this MID formula example, we are fetching the substring from the given text string using the MID formula in excel =MID(B3,2,5). It will bring the substring from 2 characters and 5 letters from the 2nd position, and the output will be as shown in the second column.

Example #2

We can use the mid function that extracts the first and last names from the full names.

For First Name: here we have used the MID formula in Excel =MID(B17,1,SEARCH(” “,B17,1)); in this MID Formula example, the MID function searches the string at B17 and starts the substring from the first character, here search function fetches the location of space and return the integer value. In the end, both functions filter out the first name.

For the Last Name: Similarly, for the last name, use the =MID(B17,SEARCH(” “,B17),100), and it will give you the last name from the full name.

Example #3

Suppose we have to find out the block from ID, which is located after “-“in ID, then use =MID(H3,FIND(“-“,H3)+1,2) MID formula in Excel to filter out the block ID two-character after.

Example #4

We can also find out the domain name from the web URLs. Here is the MID function used to achieve this:

=MID(H18,SEARCH(“://”,H18)+3,SEARCH(“/”,H18,SEARCH(“://”,H18)+3)-SEARCH(“://”,H18)-3)

Excel MID Function can be used as a VBA function.

Dim Midstring As String

Midstring = Application.worksheetfunction.mid(“Alphabet”, 5, 2)

Msgbox(Midstring) // Return the substring “ab” from string “Alphabet” in the message box.

The output will be  “ab.”

Things to Remember About Excel MID Function

• Excel MID formula returns empty text if the start_num is greater than the length of the string.

=MID(B3,21,5)= blank as the start number is greater than the string length, so the output will be empty, as shown below.

• If start_num is < the length of text, but start_num + num_chars exceeds the length of the string, then MID returns the characters up to the end of the text.

=MID(B3,1,15)

• The MID function in Excel through the #VALUE#VALUE! Error in Excel represents that the reference cell the user has either entered an incorrect formula or used a wrong data type (mostly numerical data). Sometimes, it is difficult to identify the kind of mistake behind this error.read more! Error
  • If start_num < 1 ex. =MID(B3,-1,15)

• If num_chars is a negative value.

=MID(B3,1,-15)

MID Excel Function Video

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Функция ПСТР (MID) в Excel используется для отображения куска текста из строки по заданному количеству символов.

Что возвращает функция

Возвращает часть строки из текста.

Синтаксис

=MID(text, start_num, num_chars) — английская версия

=ПСТР(текст;начальная_позиция;число_знаков) — русская версия

Аргументы функции

• text (текст) — текст из которого вы хотите отобразить часть;
• start_num (начальная_позиция) — стартовая позиция внутри текста, с которой будет производиться отображение части текста;
• num_chars (число_знаков) — суммарное количество символов, которое вы хотите отобразить из заданного текста.

Дополнительная информация

• Функция учитывает пробелы как отдельные символы;
• Для того, чтобы удалить лишние пробелы из текста, используйте функцию СЖПРОБЕЛЫ;
• Если стартовая позиция, с которой должно начаться отображение части текста больше чем количество символов в тексте, то функция вернет пустую ячейку;
• Функция выдаст ошибку, если стартовая позиция меньше «1» или равно отрицательному значению.

Примеры использования функции ПСТР в Excel

What Is MID Function In Excel?

The MID Excel function returns a specified number of characters from the middle of a given text string. Also, the MID function can be used with VALUE, SUM, COUNT, DATE, DAY, and other functions.

The MID Excel function is available under the Excel TEXT functions group.

For example, the below table shows the value in cell A2. Now, we need to apply MID function to detect the output.

The steps used to apply MID excel function are as follows:

Step 1: To begin with, select the cell to display the output. In our example, the cell is B2.

Step 2: Next, enter the complete formula =MID(A2,4,3)

Step 3: Then, press Enter key.

The function has returned the output as shown in the below image.

Likewise, we can apply MID function to obtain the middle value.

MID() Excel Formula

The syntax of the MID excel formula is:

where,

• text: It denotes the original text string.
• start_num: It indicates the integer specifying the position of the first character we want to be returned.
• num_chars: It shows the number of characters, starting with start_num, to be returned from the start of the text. It is the number of characters to be extracted.

Unlike other functions, all the arguments are mandatory in MID excel formula.

How To Use MID Excel Function? (With Steps)

#1 – Access From The Excel Ribbon

1. Choose the empty cell to display the result.
2. Go to the Formulas tab.
3. Select Text from the menu.
4. Select MID from the drop-down menu.
5. The Function Arguments window appears.
6. Based on the number of arguments, enter the value in the Text, Start_num, and Num_chars. 
7. Select OK.

#2 – Enter The Worksheet Manually

1. Select an empty cell for the output.
2. Type =MID( in the selected cell. Alternatively, type =M and double-click the MID function from the list of suggestions shown by Excel.
3. Enter the arguments as cell references or direct values.
4. Close the parenthesis and press the Enter key.

Let us take a basic example to understand this function. The following table shows the strings in column A. Now, we need to extract the text from the string using MID excel function.

Examples

Example #1 – Extracts The First And Last Names From The Full Names

The below table shows the full name of various people in column A. We need to extract the first name and the last name from the given table array using MID Excel function.

The steps to extract the text from the string by the MID in Excel are as follows:

Step 1: To begin with, select the column to display the cell. In this example, we will enter the First name in column B and the Last name in column C.  

Step 2: Next, enter the MID formula in cell B2 for extracting the first name.

Step 3: Now, enter the value for the text argument as A2.

Step 4: The value entered for the start_num argument is 1.

Step 5: The value entered for num_chars argument is the SEARCH formula as we extract the first name.

Step 6: The entered complete formula in cell B2 for extracting the first name is =MID(A2,1,SEARCH(“ ”,A2)-1)

Press Enter key.

Step 7: The result is returned as Tom.

Next, drag the cursor to cell B5; all the first name from the data is extracted in column B as shown in the following image.

Step 8: Next, enter the MID formula in cell C2 for extracting the Last name.

Step 9: Firstly, we will enter the TRIM excel formula, and then the MID formula value entered for the text argument is A2.

Step 10: Now, enter the value for the start_num argument and the SEARCH formula for extracting the last name.

Step 11: The value entered for the num_chars argument is the LEN excel formula as we are extracting the Last name.

Step 12: So, the entered complete formula in cell C2 for extracting the last name is =TRIM(MID(A2,SEARCH(“ ”,A2),LEN(A2)))

Press Enter key.

The result is returned as Cruise.

Step 13: Drag the cursor to cell C5;

Likewise, we can use MID Function to extract values.

Example #2 – Find Out The Domain Name From The Web URLs

The below table shows the Web URLs in column A. We need to use the following steps to find the domain name from the table array using MID Excel Function.

The steps to extract the text from the string by the MID in Excel are as follows:

Step 1: To begin with, select the column where we will enter the formula and calculate the result. The selected column, in this case, is column B.

Step 2: Next, enter the MID Excel formula in cell B2 for extracting the domain name.

Step 3: The complete formula in cell B2 for extracting the domain name is =MID(A2,SEARCH(“://”,A2)+3,SEARCH(“/”,A2,SEARCH(“://”,A2)+3)-SEARCH(“://”,A2)-3).

Step 4: The result is returned as www.excelmojo.com in cell B2. 

Step 5: Now, drag the cursor to cell B5; all the domain name from the data is extracted in column B.

Similarly, we can use MID function to find the values.

The following table shows numbers in column A. We need to extract the last n digits from the given data using MID Excel function.

The steps to extract the text from the string by the MID Excel function are as follows:

Step 1: First, select the column where we will enter the formula and calculate the result. The selected column, in this case, is column B.

Step 2: Next, enter the MID formula in cell B2 for extracting the Last n Digits.

Step 3: So, the complete formula in cell B2 for extracting the Last n Digits is =MID(A2,LEN(A2)-2+1,2).

Step 4: The function has returned the result as 34 in cell B2. 

Step 5: Next, press Enter and drag the cursor to cell B5;

Likewise, we can use MID excel function to obtain the values.

Example #4 – MID Function With Arrays

The following table shows input values of fruits in column A. We need to extract the text from the table array using MID Excel function.

The steps to extract the text from the string by the MID in Excel are as follows:

Step 1: First, select the column where we will enter the formula and calculate the result. The selected column, in this case, is column B.

Step 2: Next, enter the MID formula in cell B2 for extracting the data from the array.

Step 3: Then, enter the value for the text argument as A2:A5.

Step 4: Similarly, enter the value for the start_num argument as 1.

Step 5: The value entered for the num_chars argument is the SEARCH formula as we extract the text.

Step 6: The entered complete formula in cell B2 for extracting is =MID(A2:A5,1,SEARCH(“ ”,A2:A5)).

We can see that the function has returned the value in B2.

Step 7: Drag the cursor to cell B5;

Similarly, we can use MID Excel function to find values.

Things To Remember

• The MID Excel function returns the middle or central characters in the data.
• All the arguments in MID Excel formula are mandatory.
• The function extracts the characters from any side of a specified text.
• It extracts text from inside a text string based on location and length.
• The MID function returns empty text if the start_num is greater than the length of a string.
• The “#VALUE!” error occurs if the value of the num_chars argument is less than 0 or if the value of the start_num argument is less than 1.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

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MID in Excel

The MID function works in the same way as the Right and Left functions do. It is all up to us what portion of the middle text we want to extract. For example, a cell contains FIRST, then using the Mid function there, we can select the character position from which we want to extract the text and the number of characters till we want. If we want from 2 positions to the next 3 characters, then we will be getting IRS as output.

For Example:

MID (“Bangalore is the Capital of Karnataka”, 18, 7) in this formula MID function will return from the 18^th character it will return 7 characters, i.e. “Capital”.

The MID function is also available in VBA too. We will discuss that at the end of this article.

MID Formula in Excel:

Below is the MID Formula in Excel.

Explanation of MID Formula in Excel:

MID formula has three compulsory parameters: i.e.text, start_num, num_chars.

• text: From the text that you want to extract specified characters.
• start_num: Starting position of the middle string.
• [num_chars]: The number of characters you want to extract from the start-num.

Usually, the MID function in Excel is used alongside other text functions like SEARCH, REPLACE, LEN, FIND, LEFT, etc.

How to Use MID Function in Excel?

MID function in Excel is very simple and easy to use. Let understand the working of MID function in Excel by some MID Formula example. The MID function can be used as a worksheet function and as a VBA function.

You can download this MID Function Excel Template here – MID Function Excel Template

Example #1

In this MID Formula in Excel example, we are extracting the substring from the given text string by using the MID formula.

From the above table extract, characters from the 4^th character extract 6 characters.

So the result will be :

Example #2

Using the MID function, we can extract First Name & Last Name. Look at the below example where we have full names from A2 to A15.

From the above table, extract first names for all the names.

Result is :

Part 1: This part determines the desired text that you want to extract the characters.

Part 2: This determines the starting position of the character.

Part 3: The SEARCH function looks for the first space (“ “) in the text and determines the placing of the space.

Here the SEARCH formula returns 5 for the first name that means space is the 5^th character in the above text. So now MID function extracts 5 characters starting from 1^st.

So the result will be :

NOTE: Space is also considered as one character.

Example #3

Below is the flight number list, and we need to extract the characters starting from Y till you find “ – “

Look at the above example where the letters are in bold we need to extract. It looks like one heck of a task, Isn’t it?. However, we can do this by using MID alongside SEARCH or FIND functions. One common thing is all the bold letters are starting with Y, and it has 6 characters in total.

A SEARCH function will determine the starting character to extract, and from the starting point, we need to extract 6 characters.

So the Result is :

Example #4

Below is the list of companies alongside their registration number. The task is to extract only the registration number from the list.

Closely look at the above list; one common thing before the registration number is the word Acct. This will be our key point to determine the starting point. In the previous example, we have used SEARCH this time to look at the FIND function.

Part 1: This part determines the desired text that you want to extract the characters.

Part 2: The FIND function first looks for the word “Acct” in the text, and from there, we need to add 5 more characters to the list, and that determines the starting position of the character.

We need to add 5 that from Acct to registration number; it is 5 characters, including space.

Part 3: Number of characters we need to extract.

So the result will be :

Example #5

Now we will look at the combination of RIGHT, LEFT & MID function in one example. We need to concatenate forward-slash (/) to separate Year, month & day.

Look at the below example where we have dates but no separators for a year, month and day.

Now, we need to insert separators for the year, month, and day.

Firstly RIGHT function extracts 2 characters from the right and inserts one forward-slash (/), i.e. 25/

Now, we need to insert separators for the year, month, and day.

The second part is MID function extracts 2 characters starting from the 5^th character and insert one forward-slash (/)

i.e. 25/10/

The final part is LEFT function extracts 4 characters from the left-hand side and insert one forward-slash (/)

i.e. 25/10/2018

So the result will be :

VBA Code to use MID Function

Like in Excel, we can use the MID function in VBA code also. The below code illustrates the usage of the MID function in VBA macros.

Sub MID_Function_Example
Dim Middle_String as string
Middle_String = Mid (“Excel can do wonders”, 14, 7)
Msgbox Middle_String
End Sub

If you run the above code message box will display wonders as your result.

Things to Remember

• Number formatting is not part of a string and will not be extracted or counted.
• This is designed to extract the characters from any side of a specified text.
• If the user does not specify the last parameter, it will take 0 as by default.
• Num_chars must be greater than or equal to zero. If it is a negative number, it will throw the error as #VALUE.
• In the case of complex data sets, you need to use other text functions like SEARCH, FIND Num_chars parameter.
• Use the MID function when you want to extract text from inside a text string, based on location and length.
• The MID function returns empty text if the start_num is greater than the length of a string.

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