Try:

=MID(A1,FIND("/",A1)+1,255)

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I have a spreadsheet which imports data in the form R/IVE/0458 I need
to extract data to read IVE 0458 an added complication being that some
times there are 5 digits ie R/IVE/40755 which needs to read IVE 40755

Hope this makes sense, thanks in anticipation

Martin