=IF(AND(ISTEXT(MID(A1,3,1)), ISNUMBER(--MID(A1,4,1))),--MID(A1,4,255),"")
Assuming always AAANN or AAA
Will not work with AAAAN
Please tell us your exact requirements
best wishes

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"aileen" wrote in message
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I have a column of data as such:
ESZ8
ESZ10
SPT
SPY
SPV
ESH9
SPC12

For the celss that have more than 3 characters I would like to separate
the
data into new columns as follows: ignore the first 2 characters then place
the 3rd character in a new column and any remaining characters which will
always be numbers in another column.

e.g
A B C
ESZ8 z 8
ESZ10 z 10
SPT
SPY
SPV
ESH9 h 9
SPC12 c 12

Is this at all possible? As usual, thank you for any help you can give.