How to use the MID function in Excel. Open Microsoft Excel. Use an existing table or create one. In the cell where you want to place the result type =MID(A3,4,2).

Here’s the trick: You use the FIND() function to return the position of the hyphen and then use those results as the MID() function’s second argument. So next, let’s learn how to use FIND().

Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool for organizing and analyzing data. One of the many functions available in Excel is the MID function, which allows you to extract a specific number of characters from ...