Skip to content
Free Excel Tutorials
  • Home
  • Excel For Beginners
  • Excel Intermediate
  • Advanced Excel For Experts

Data Analysis

  • How to create dynamic reference table name in Excel
  • How to Create Area Chart in Excel
  • Excel Frequency Function Example
  • Conditional Formatting Color Scales Examples in Excel
  • Excel Line Chart

References

  • Perform case-sensitive Lookup in Excel
  • How to use Excel ROW Function
  • How to use Excel TRANSPOSE Function
  • How to get last row in numeric data in Excel
  • Last row number in range

Data Validations

  • Excel Data validation unique values only
  • Excel Data validation must contain specific text
  • Excel Data validation allow weekday only
  • Excel Data validation no punctuation
  • Excel Data validation require unique number

How to retrieve workbook name only in Excel

by

If you want to get the workbook name only (i.e. the file name without path or sheet name) you can do so with a rather long formula that uses the MID function along with the FIND function.

Formula

=MID(CELL("filename",A1),FIND("[",CELL
("filename",A1))+1,FIND("]",CELL("filename",A1))
-FIND("[",CELL("filename",A1))-1)

Explanation

How the formula works

The cell function is used to get the full file name and path:

CELL("filename",A1)

The result looks like this:

path[workbook.xlsm]sheetname

At the highest level, the MID function simply extracts the file name from the path and sheet. The starting position is calculated with FIND:

FIND("[",CELL("filename",A1))+1

The number of characters to extract is also calculated with FIND:

FIND("]",CELL("filename",A1))-FIND("[",CELL("filename",A1))-1

Post navigation

Previous Post:

DECIMAL function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

Next Post:

AVERAGE function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Learn Basic Excel

Ribbon
Workbook
Worksheets
Format Cells
Find & Select
Sort & Filter
Templates
Print
Share
Protect
Keyboard Shortcuts

Categories

  • Charts
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Validation
  • Excel Functions
    • Cube Functions
    • Database Functions
    • Date and Time Functions
    • Engineering Functions
    • Financial Functions
    • Information Functions
    • Logical Functions
    • Lookup and Reference Functions
    • Math and Trig Functions
    • Statistical Functions
    • Text Functions
    • Web Functions
  • Excel VBA
  • Excel Video Tutorials
  • Formatting
  • Grouping
  • Others

Logical Functions

  • IFS function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • How to use Excel TRUE Function
  • How to use Excel OR Function
  • How to use Excel AND Function
  • Check multiple cells are equal in Excel

Date Time

  • Add decimal hours to time in Excel
  • Get first day of previous month in Excel
  • DAYS function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Get work hours between dates custom schedule in Excel
  • Get week number from date in Excel

Grouping

  • Running count group by n size in Excel
  • If cell contains one of many things in Excel
  • Group numbers with VLOOKUP in Excel
  • Categorize text with keywords in Excel
  • Group numbers at uneven intervals in Excel

General

  • Create dynamic workbook reference to another workbook in Excel
  • How to get original number from percent change in Excel
  • How to Insert Cells, Row and Rows in Excel
  • Count cells less than in Excel
  • Count cells that do not contain many strings in Excel
© 2025 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles | Abbreviations And Their Meaning