For extracting the 66th through nth character, use this:

=IF(LEN(A1)<=65,"",RIGHT(A1,(LEN(A1))-65))

Wow, I'm good.

Dave
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"Nat1" wrote:

Hi,
I'm looking for a way to limit the number of characters in a string of text
to 65 within a cell, so that characters than this move to the next
row(cell) in a column. This is so the data passes validation on import to an
oracle database. I have tried the text to columns wizard but that moves the
data to the next column. I have also tried =left function and validation to
no avail.

Any help would be greatly appreciated