=IF(LEN(A1)4,RIGHT(A1),"")

then use conditional formatting formula is

=B1<""

of course you cannot conditionally format the source cell itself if you
need only part of the string formatted



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in this scenario, in Column A, I got inputs like x1234,a321,z321

now the problem is that i want to hightlight any inputs that has more
than four

character and if the length 4 , high light the last number with a
colour.

something like this: IF (len(input)4,
highlight_last_no(with_colour)))

can i use MID or trim to return the input result to read the last value
and at the

same time give it a colour?


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