One way

=TEXT(MID(A1,1,LEN(A1)-2),"00")

or

=MID(A1,1,LEN(A1)-2)

and use custom format

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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

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"Adam Kroger @hotmail.com" <adam_kroger<nospam wrote in message
...
I am trying to use MID to extract teh first 2 numbers of a 4 digit number
that is in a cell. The problem is, the number sometimes has a "0" as the
first digit and when this happens, MID() ignores the 0, and reads the 2nd
and 3rd character. So:

Cell A1 = 0123
Cell B2 =MID(A1,1,2)

Returns 12 instead of 1

How can I fix this? I need tehm to stay numbers so I can use them in
mathmatical operations in another formula. I thought I had teh problem
solved by formatting the cell to "Number -custom 0000"

TIA
Adam