Yes, that's intentional.

1E300 is very big number = 1 followed by 300 zeros.

1E300 is scientific notation and a shortcut for expressing 1 followed by 300
zeros.

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"KLZA" wrote in message
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On Mar 5, 10:32 am, KLZA wrote:
On Mar 5, 10:24 am, "T. Valko" wrote:





One way:

=LOOKUP(1E300,--LEFT(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1)))))

Note that this will strip off any leading zeros.

0123ABC will return 123.

If you have leading zeros you can use this version *but* it returns the
value as TEXT, not a number:

=LEFT(A1,SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(-MID(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:50")),1))))

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP

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Hi. I need to extract the first few numbers from a cell an ignore the
rest. So If cell A1 shows 12468ABC13 the result should be 12468 or if
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I need th firs formula typed as it shows 1E300 after lookup?