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PeterAtherton
 
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Default Trying to truncate or separate the first 3 characters/digits of co

Or if you want to retain decimals

=RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-3)

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Peter Atherton



"Jim" wrote:

I have a spreadsheet with a column of numbers. I'm trying to extract /
truncate / remove the leading 3 digits in each cell. The numbers vary in
length, so using the LEFT or RIGHT function doesn't seem to be an option.

The numbers represent division / dept. numbers within my company. The
leading 3 digits represent the division, which I want to remove / discard.