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Default How to find & delete a particular pattern of text from values of a

=IF(LEFT(A2,2)="FL",--RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-2),A2)
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David Biddulph

"Mansa" wrote in message
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I have a columns having values like 50200986, FL0050200987, FL000050200234
etc.
I want to find and remove FL00, FL000 etc and keep only the values which
are
trimmed of FL, FL00 or FL000 etc.

Please help .

Manish