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Default Import data from Access and doesnt recognize numbers in left f

hi,

Your formula returned a text string, multiplying by 1 made it a number.
leaving it as text 'might' have created issues if you were doing lookup
comparisons.

Glad I could help

Mike

"tpeter" wrote:

WOW,

That was perfect, thank you, what is the *1 for?

"Mike H" wrote:

Try

=(IF(VALUE(LEFT(B2,2))<11,20&LEFT(B2,2),19&LEFT(B2 ,2)))*1

Mike

"tpeter" wrote:

I have a database that is sorted and imported into excel for charting
purposes. I have all the data there but need to pull out the first 2 numbers
of a field to create a year. Here is an example of the data I am importing:

93h00151615 (would be 1993)
10j56465665 (would be 2010)

I am using this function to accomplish this in another colume:

if(left(b2,2)<11,20&left(b2,2),19&left(b2,2)

This always uses the default because it doesn't reconize the first two
characters as letters. I have reformated the cells but it doesn't work.

Thank you for your help.