Again, as with your previous question, you need to make up your mind what
you want.
If you replace the number 2 in "23456" with a number 1, you won't get
"12345", but "13456".
Do you want to replace all 2s by 1s, or only the first occurrence of 2, or
only if it occurs as the first character in the string? The functions to
look at are SUBSTITUTE and REPLACE. Excel help will tell you how they are
used.
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David Biddulph

"bill" wrote in message
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Thanks thats what i was looking for!

One other question..

how do i eplace a number?

for example after i removed the unwanted digits how do i replace say the
first number "2" with a number "1"

E.G Change 23456 to 12345...

Many thanks!

Bill

"Ron Coderre" wrote:

Perhaps Text-to-Columns?

If all cell values are 12 characters in length
try something like this:

Select the single-column range of cells

Then...from the Excel main menu:
<data<text-to-columns
Check: Fixed width..........click [Next]
Click between the 2nd and 3rd characters (to insert a break point)
Click between the 9th and 10th characters (to insert another break point)
Click [Next]
Click on the 1st of the 3 columns....Check: Do not import column
Click on the 3rd of the 3 columns....Check: Do not import column
Click [Finish]

That will lop off the 1st 2 and the last 3 characters

(BTW....Your example of H016690180 only has 10 characters, not the 12 you
indicated in your first post.)

Does that help?
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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


"bill" wrote:

thanks for the response david.

let me explain a little further..

For example... currently I have the following in cell A1... H016690180

I wish to remove the H0 from the beginning and the 180 from the end....

Is this possible to have excel perform this automatically?

thanks again,

Bill

"David Biddulph" wrote:

=MID(A1,4,7) and copy down.
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David Biddulph

"bill" wrote in message
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Hi,

i'm not sure how to explain this but here goes...

i have cells containing 12 digit numbers. I need to remove the
first 3 and
the last 2 digits. As there are 1000 plus cells (all in the same
colum)
which
i need this to occur is there a way to automate this inexcel?

thanks,

Bill