Have a look in HELP index for MID

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"billybob" wrote in message
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I am trying to take a long UTM grid and truncate it into its standard
form.
To do so, I must take the first two digits off the left and want to take
the
decimal and the last two digits off the right. I believe I have done this
before but can't remember how. Thanks.