HOW TO USE RIGHT FUNCTION IN EXCEL?

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• PURPOSE OF RIGHT FUNCTION IN EXCEL
• PREREQUISITES TO LEARN RIGHT
• SYNTAX: RIGHT FUNCTION
• EXAMPLE:RIGHT FUNCTION IN EXCEL
  • DATA SAMPLE
  • STEPS TO USE EXACT FUNCTION
• KNOWLEDGE BYTES
  • uses of RIGHT function

INTRODUCTION

In this article, we’ll discuss RIGHT FUNCTION IN EXCEL, its purpose, where to use Right Function, How to use right function in Excel with the help of examples.

RIGHT function comes under the TEXT category in Excel.

RIGHT FUNCTION is used if we need to extract a specified number of characters counted from the right side of a string.

RIGHT returns the last character or characters in a text string, based on the number of characters you specify.

PURPOSE OF RIGHT FUNCTION IN EXCEL

RIGHT FUNCTION returns the specified number of characters from a string, counted from the right.

PREREQUISITES TO LEARN RIGHT

THERE ARE A FEW PREREQUISITES WHICH WILL ENABLE YOU TO UNDERSTAND THIS FUNCTION IN A BETTER WAY.

•  Basic understanding of how to use a formula or function.
•  Basic understanding of rows and columns in Excel.
• Some information about the financial terms is an advantage for the use of such formulas.
•  Of course, Excel software.

Helpful links for the prerequisites mentioned above

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SYNTAX: RIGHT FUNCTION

The Syntax for the function is

=RIGHT(STRING, NUMBER OF CHARACTERS)

STRING Text from which the characters are to be extracted

NUMBER OF CHARACTERS number of characters to be extracted

EXAMPLE:RIGHT FUNCTION IN EXCEL

DATA SAMPLE

Let us try to extract last 5 letters from a string.

Sample String: It is a beautiful day.

STEPS TO USE EXACT FUNCTION

The strings are put in the cells G9 and G11.

The string used is “IT IS A BEAUTIFUL DAY”.

The output is sought in cell I9 AND I11. The functions used are

=RIGHT(G9,5) FOR I9

This function extracts 5 letters from the text stored in G9.

Similarly for I11, the function is

=RIGHT(G11,7).

This function extracts 7 letters from text stored in G11.

The text can be declared in the function also with the use of “”.

e.g. =RIGHT(“HELLO”,2)

The result will be LO.

KNOWLEDGE BYTES

uses of RIGHT function

RIGHT FUNCTION can be used for many things such as separating the DATE.

Suppose we need to separate the year of a date.

The year portion should be of the same format.

Suppose the dates are

01.02.2020

02.02.2020

10.02.2020

and we need to extract the DAY portion from these days.

we can use=RIGHT(DATE_TEXT,2)

and copy the function to all the further cells.The result will be achieved.  

The above example shows how we separated the year part of a date.

This can be achieved by setting the format type of the cell but if the scenario is very random, this method is quite helpful.