How to Use the RIGHT Function in Excel (Extract Text from the End)

How to Use the RIGHT Function in Excel (Extract Text from the End)

The RIGHT() function in Excel helps extract a set number of characters from the end (right side) of a string.

📘 Syntax:

=RIGHT(text, num_chars)

✅ Example:

=RIGHT("EMPLOYEE2025", 4)

This returns "2025", the last 4 characters from the text string.

🎯 Use Cases:

• Extract year or code suffixes
• Useful in renaming or identifying employee IDs
• Ideal for cleaning large datasets with structured codes

💡 Bonus Tip:

You can nest RIGHT inside other functions like IF or VALUE to further process numeric suffixes.

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