You can use the following formula in Google Sheets to extract all text from a cell after a specific character:
=REGEXEXTRACT(A2,".*our(.*)")
This particular formula extracts all of the text in cell A2 that occurs after the string “our” is encountered.
This formula uses the REGEXTRACT function to extract all characters (.*) after our.
The following example shows how to use this formula in practice.
Example: Extract Text After Character in Google Sheets
Suppose we have the following list of phrases in Google Sheets:
Now suppose that we would like to extract all text from each cell after the string “our” is encountered.
To do so, we can type the following formula into cell B2:
=REGEXEXTRACT(A2,".*our(.*)")
We can then click and drag this formula down to each remaining cell in column B:
Column B now displays all text after “our” for each phrase in column A.
To extract the text after a different specific character, we simply need to replace our with something else.
For example, we could type the following formula into cell B2 to extract all text after “is ” from cell A2:
=REGEXEXTRACT(A2,".*is (.*)")
We can then click and drag this formula down to each remaining cell in column B:
Column B now displays all text after “is ” for each phrase in column A.
Additional Resources
The following tutorials explain how to perform other common tasks in Google Sheets:
Google Sheets: Check if Cell Contains Text from List
Google Sheets: How to COUNTIF Not Equal to Text
Google Sheets: Conditional Formatting if Another Cell Contains Text
