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PHONETIC function

Applies to: Microsoft Office Excel 2007

 

Extracts the phonetic (furigana) characters from a text string.

Syntax

PHONETIC(reference)

Reference     is a text string or a reference to a single cell or a range of cells that contain a furigana text string.

Remarks

  • If reference is a range of cells, the furigana text string in the upper-left corner cell of the range is returned.
  • If the reference is a range of nonadjacent cells, the #N/A error value is returned.

Example

If cells C4 contains "Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo " and cell B7 contains "Osaka Osaka Osaka ", the following are true:

=PHONETIC(C4) equals "Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo "

=PHONETIC(B7) equals "Osaka Osaka Osaka Osaka Osaka "

 
 

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