I think that this will do the trick:
=LEFT(A1,1)&LEFT(RIGHT(A1,5),1)
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Hope this helps,
MarkN


"JBasch" wrote:


I am trying to extra to extract certain characters from a cell. I know
this should be easy, but I am having a lot of trouble figuring out how.
Each cell has a different amount of characters, and I want the 1st
character and the 5th character from the end. Here are a couple
examples:

dinosaur -- do
minneapolis -- mp

Please help,
Thanks


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