Simple as that Bob...thank you very much!!

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Try

=MID(Trim(F1),5,30)

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"David" wrote in message
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I am using mid and then concatenate to get the text I need for another
workbook. However, there is a space being inserted from the mid function,
so
that when I use concatenate, an extra space appears. Here are the two
functions, they are in side by side columns.
=MID(F1,5,30) 'this is producing a space at the end. To test, copy the
result and paste special values.
=CONCATENATE(G1,"-",C1) is in the next column.
This is the result I get after using both:
Austin -TX 'The space is before the -

Thanks...this one I just can't figure!