MID function in MS-Excel

	C	D	E	F
3	Text	Start Position	How Many Characters	Mid String
4	ABCDEDF	1	3	ABC	=MID(C4,D4,E4)
5	ABCDEDF	2	3	BCD	=MID(C5,D5,E5)
6	ABCDEDF	5	2	ED	=MID(C6,D6,E6)
8	ABC-100-DEF	100	=MID(C8,5,3)
9	ABC-200-DEF	200	=MID(C9,5,3)
10	ABC-300-DEF	300	=MID(C10,5,3)
12	Item Size: Large	Large	=MID(C12,12,99)
13	Item Size: Medium	Medium	=MID(C13,12,99)
14	Item Size: Small	Small	=MID(C14,12,99)

What Does It Do ?
This function picks out a piece of text from the middle of a text entry.
The function needs to know at what point it should start, and how many characters to pick.
If the number of characters to pick exceeds what is available, only the available characters will be picked.

Syntax
=MID(OriginalText,PositionToStartPicking,NumberOfCharactersToPick)

Formatting
No special formatting is needed.

Example 1
The following table uses the =MID() function to extract a post code from a branch ID used by a company.
It is assumed that all branch ID's follow the same format with the letters identifying the postal region being in the 5th and 6th positions.

	C	D
34	Branch ID	Postal Region
35	DRS-CF-476	CF	=MID(C35,5,2)
36	DRS-WA-842	WA	=MID(C36,5,2)
37	HLT-NP-190	NP	=MID(C37,5,2)

Example 2
This example shows how to extract an item which is of variable length, which is inside a piece of text which has no standard format, other than the required text is always between two slash / symbols.

	C	D
45	Full Branch Code	Postal Region
46	DRS/STC/872	STC
47	HDRS/FC/111	FC
48	S/NORTH/874	NORTH
49	HQ/K/875	K
50	SPECIAL/UK & FR/876	UK & FR

           =MID(C50,FIND("/",C50)+1,FIND("/",C50,FIND("/",C50)+1)-FIND("/",C50)-1)

Find the first /, plus 1 for the Start of the code.
Find the second /, occurring after the first /
Calculate the length of the text to extract, by subtracting the position of the first / from the position of the second /