what is a good/best formula to extract the 3rd last word in cell A1 into cell C1

[Kevin Waite]

My example/problem"

A1
"1167 Belle Plaine Ave. Gurnee IL 60031"

C1
I want:
"Gurnee"


Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Kevin Waite

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi Kevin
using two helper columns (to make the formulas not that complicated)
try
B1:
=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","#",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"
",""))-2)," ","^",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))-2)

C1:
=MID(B1,FIND("#",B1)+1,FIND("^",B1)-FIND("#",B1)-1)

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/excelF.htm#Words

Chip Pearson's formulas on extracting words from a string.