Several ways to do this, Robert. If using VBA, I'd point you to InStrRev. If using formulae, it's slightly harder, but not much. Check out my article here, where I do the same thing, but with spaces: http://www.grbps.com/Excel1.pdf Ray ------------------------------------ GR Business Process Solutions Ray Blake Head of Software Design ray@xxxxxxxxx Braedon Newell Road Hemel Hempstead Herts HP3 9PD tel: 01442 396518 fax: 01442 389353 mobile: 07834 226601 ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Carneal Sent: 01 November 2004 06:04 To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Insert medical symbol in MS Word If I import into excel path and filenames (Such as F:\CHAP_02\EXECUTE\practice\TIMEMULT.EXE, how can I break that up so that one cell holds the path, and the cell next to holds the filename? Yes, I know how to find a character such as "\" but I have no idea to to determine if I have found the last occurrence of "\". Example: D6: F:\CHAP_02\EXECUTE\practice\TIMEMULT.EXE E6: F:\CHAP_02\EXECUTE\practice\ F6: TIMEMULT.EXE Looks, easy, but I have no idea how to find the last occurrence of a character. Thanks. Robert ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************