FIND, FINDB function

Category: Text
Introduced: Excel 2010

Summary

Finds one text value within another (case-sensitive)

Syntax

FIND(find_text, within_text, [start_num]) The FIND function syntax has the following arguments:
• Find_text Required. The text you want to find.
• Within_text Required. The text containing the text you want to find.
• Start_num Optional. Specifies the character at which to start the search. The first character in within_text is character number 1. If you omit start_num, it is assumed to be 1.

Example

=FIND("M",A2)
=FIND("m",A2)
=FIND("M",A2,3)
=MID(A2,1,FIND(" #",A2,1)-1)
=MID(A3,1,FIND(" #",A3,1)-1)
=MID(A4,1,FIND(" #",A4,1)-1)

Microsoft Support Page

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-function-c7912941-af2a-4bdf-a553-d0d89b0a0628

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