A to Z of Excel Functions: The RIGHT Function

Welcome back to our regular A to Z of Excel Functions blog.  Today we look at the RIGHT function.

The RIGHT function

The RIGHT function returns the last character or characters in a text string, based upon the number of characters specified.

The RIGHT function employs the following syntax to operate:

The RIGHT function has the following arguments:

• text: this is required and represents the text string that contains the characters you want to extract
• number_of_characters: this argument is optional and specifies the number of characters from the end you want RIGHT to extract.

It should be further noted that:

• number_of_characters must be greater than or equal to zero
• if number_of_characters is greater than the length of text, RIGHT returns all of text
• if number_of_characters is omitted, it is assumed to be one (1).

Please see my examples below: 

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