This post will guide you how to use Excel RIGHT function with syntax and examples in Microsoft excel.

Description

The Excel RIGHT function returns a substring (a specified number of the characters) from a text string, starting from the rightmost character.

The RIGHT function is a build-in function in Microsoft Excel and it is categorized as a Text Function.

The RIGHT function is available in Excel 2016, Excel 2013, Excel 2010, Excel 2007, Excel 2003, Excel XP, Excel 2000, Excel 2011 for Mac.

Syntax

The syntax of the RIGHT function is as below:

= RIGHT (text,[num_chars])

Where the RIGHT function arguments are:

• Text -This is a required argument. The text string that you want to extract from.
• num_chars-This is an optional argument. It will specify the number of characters that you want to extract from Text string.
  Note: The Num_chars value must be greater than or equal to zero. If Num_chars is greather that the length of text string, it will return all of text string. If Num_chars value is omitted, it is set to be 1 by default.

Example

The below examples will show you how to use Excel RIGHT Text function to extract the rightmost substring from a text string.

#1 To extract the rightmost 4 characters in the B1 cell, just using formula: =RIGHT(B1,4).

More RIGHT Function Examples

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