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That only works if there are 1 or 2 digits. Why use 2 formulas? Those could
be combined into 1.

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"wmack" wrote in
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you could also add two rows, First row would be:
=SEARCH("x",A1)

Next Row would be
=TRIM(MID(A1,(B1-2),2))

Then just hid the row with the search strind in it.


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