=--(LEFT(A1,2))

Hope this helps.
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John C


"FARAZ QURESHI" wrote:

I have used quite some scheme of formulas like left(), right() to extract the
"numbers" from a list of codes but they turn out to be in text form. Any idea
how to use some sort of =Text() like function so as to convert the extracted
figures to numbers?

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Best Regards,
FARAZ A. QURESHI