You can use LEFT(A1,4) to extract just the first 4 characters, but
you'll have to give some more detail on how your data is laid out and
what you want to do if you want more advice.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Dec 6, 8:30 pm, Curtis wrote:
I have a column which contains the following type data
0125 - BYK-CRI-CC-SMITH

All I care about is the 0125. Is there a formula that I could use that would
vlookup if a cell contains certain data.