How to get page from URL in Excel

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To extract the page, or the part of a path after the last forward slash (/), you can use a formula based on several Excel functions: TRIM, RIGHT, SUBSTITUTE, and REPT.

Formula

=TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(url,"/",REPT(" ",100)),100))

Explanation

In the example shown, the formula in C5 is:

=TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(B5,"/",REPT(" ",100)),100))

How this formula works

At the core, this formula replaces all forward slashes (/) with 100 spaces, then extracts  100 characters from the RIGHT and cleans this up with the TRIM function.

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The replacement is done with SUBSTITUTE and REPT here:

SUBSTITUTE(B5,"/",REPT(" ",100))

Then, the RIGHT function extracts the last 100 characters of the string returned by SUBSTITUTE.

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Finally, TRIM removes all leading and trailing space characters and returns the result.

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Note: the use of 100 in this formula is arbitrary, and represents the maximum number of characters to be found after the final forward slash (/) in the original text. Adjust to suit your use case.

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