Microsoft Excel, Find a character and get whatever comes after or before it

Example: if you have a an excel sheet with a cell that has Pronetsys = Lightspeed and you want to get what comes after the = sign here is the formula.

The solution

=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND("=",A1)-1)

The above will return Lightspeed only if.
Pronetsys = Lightspeed is in cell A1

if you wanted to return Pronetsys
Solution
=LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND("=",A1)-1)

another solution would be
=MID(A2,1,FIND(",",A2)-1)
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