On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:53:00 -0800, Deepak
wrote:

I have some numbers in coloum A
i.e.

5689745864
568789652445
568123658974
5685416859
568436468
56836465765354
56873614367436436
5.6891E+12 - ( some number are getting displayed as, when I change the
format of the coloum to number - the displayed format is
568954125325778246656465465)

What I want is in Coloum B - should have the only first 10 digitsd from
coloum A)

so the result should look like

5689745864
5687896524
5681236589
5685416859
5684364685
5683646576
5687361436
5.6891E+12 should change to 5689541253


Any help is appreciated in advance

deepak

If some of your numbers might be less than 10 digits long, and you want to have
leading zero's, then:

=TEXT(LEFT(A1,10),"0000000000")

--ron