trim everything from left of first underscore in the text?

[Mitchell_Collen via OfficeKB.com]

Hi
I am trying to remove all characters to the left of the first occurence of an
underscore but have not found a good solution. do you know how to do this?
thanks in advance - M

I have test in columns like this:

date_123232_5.txt
date234._2343453_356.txt

I want it to look like this:

123232_5.txt
2343453_356.txt

these will later be transformed to hyperlinks to the exact file.

 

[Mike H]

Hi,

With your text in a1 try this and drag down

=MID(A1,FIND("_",A1)+1,LEN(A1))

Mike

 

[Pete_UK]

Try this:

=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-SEARCH("_",A1))

Hope this helps.

Pete

 

[Dave Peterson]

You could use a helper cell with a formula:

=MID(A1,SEARCH("_",A1,1)+1,255)

The 255 is just a big number that is large enough to grab all the remaining
text.

 

[Mitchell_Collen via OfficeKB.com]

Thanks so very much! Your solution did the job!

-M