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how the way to get NSW2007 from this text?

310 Wattle StUltimo, 2007, NSW

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Title: Title was not descriptive.
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Next time please put the relevant information into the body of your question and have the title describe a general description of what you'd like to do. I updated it for you this time.
don (rep: 1989) Nov 19, '20 at 10:44 am
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You can use the string functions RIGHT, LEN (=length of text in a cell) and MID to do that...

If cell A1 contains that address, put this in another cell:

=RIGHT(A1,3) & MID(A1,LEN(A1)-8,4)

(change the bits in bold if the address is some other cell).

The RIGHT bit gets the last three characters of the cell contents, the & combines that string with the output of the MID function. That picks text from mid-way in the cell, beginning at its length - note the formula =len(A1) would will give the result 30 (characters) - LESS 8 (so the 22nd character) then returns the next 4 characters i.e. the 2007.

Hope this helps.

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I like how this question came right after I told you not to worry too much about titles haha.
don (rep: 1989) Nov 19, '20 at 10:45 am
True but I did follow your guidance, Don! Haha!
John_Ru (rep: 6102) Nov 19, '20 at 10:53 am
I appreciate that! This one was bad enough even for me to change haha.
don (rep: 1989) Nov 19, '20 at 10:55 am
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If the commas are always in the same place and you don't want to use a more complex formula, you can use the Text-to-Columns feature and use a comma as a delimiter and then, once you get multiple columns of data, just make a new column to the right that is something like =C1&B1 and copy that down for the entire list.

Then, you can select that new column and hit Ctrl + C and then Alt + E + S + V to copy/paste special values and all of those formulas will be changed into the text that they output.

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