The MID and MIDB functions in Excel return a specific number of characters from a text string starting at the position you specify.

This guide provides step-by-step instructions with examples how to extract a substring in Excel using various text functions.

It is very easy to dissect the contents of a cell in Excel using the functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT. All three functions are easy to learn.

The easiest way to identify or extract a single word in a cell is to determine where the word begins and ends within the string and use the MID function to refer to the word by its location.