One approach can be with the worksheet formula RIGHT. If you have you data
in column A, something like this in column B will do what you want:
=RIGHT(A1,6)

Hope this helps,
Miguel.

"Paul Bass" wrote:

I am using Microsoft Exce 2002. I am trying to shorten a few hundred 17
digit alphanumeric fields to just the last 6 digits of the 17 digit fields.
Any ideas would be helpful.