Use DataText to Columns to split the numbers. You can specify the split
point as fixed points, each digit in your case.

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"lynn" wrote in message
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I have list of numbers (approx 350) that is five digits long. Is it
possible
to use a formula to extract the 1st, 3rd and 4th digits from these numbers
and make another list. (ie. 12345 becomes 134, there are '0's starting
and
ending some of the numbers)