The reply to my problem below did bring the variable over to column b,
however, the fill option repeats the same variable in row 1 and does not
extract the data in every 3rd row. What do you mean by copy down? nine
thousand records!

One way:

B1: =INDEX(A:A,(ROW()-1)*3+1)


Copy down.

In article ,
Arlene wrote:

need step by step instructions to extract data from column A starting with A1
and grab A4, A7, A10, A13, etc.


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ALFR