Reversing the Word Order within a String in Microsoft Excel

In this article we will write the formula to reverse the word order within a string in Microsoft Excel. We will use LEFT, RIGHT, LEN and FIND functions.

LEFT will help to pick the character  from the left side within a cell.

RIGHT will help to pick the character from the right side within a cell text.

LEN function we use to return the text length to a cell.

FIND function returns the location number at which a specific character or text string is first found, reading left to right (not case-sensitive).

Let’s take an example to understand how reversing the word order within a string.

Example 1: We have a list of Names in Column “A” and we need to show the name in its reverse order.

Follow the below given steps:-

• Select the cell B2, write the formula.
• =RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-FIND(" ",A2))&" "&LEFT(A2,FIND(" ",A2)-1)
• Press Enter on your keyboard.
• The function will reverse the word order within a string.

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• To copy the formula to all the cells, press the key  “CTRL + C”  and select the cell B3 to B6 and press the key “CTRL + V”  on your keyboard.

This is how we can reverse the order of the words by using the Right, Len, Find and Left functions in Microsoft Excel.

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