"antonov" wrote in message
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hello there, say I have a cell with a 8 digits number in it (i.e.
54789621).
In another cell I need to have only the 4th digit (8). Is it possible?

=mid(A1,4,1)

And
also: is it possible to sort the data in a column by taking the 5th digit
of
each number?
thanks for your precious help



in a helper column add

=LEFT(A1,4)&RIGHT(A1,3)

and then sort by the helper column.