In the example shown, the formula in C5 is: Note: this is an array formula and must be entered with control + shift + enter. This text is passed into INDIRECT, which evaluates the text as a reference and returns the result to the ROW function. The ROW function returns the rows contained in the reference in an array of numbers like this: Notice we have one number for each letter in the original text. This array goes into the MID function, for the start_num argument. The text comes from column B, and the number of characters is hardcoded as 1 Finally, with multiple start numbers, MID returns multiple results in an array like this.
Dave Bruns
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