Small correction to Jacob's formulas.... the 7's should be a 6's.

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Jacob Skaria" wrote in message
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With your text in cell A1 try the below formula

=RIGHT(A1,7)

to convert to a number
=--RIGHT(A1,7)


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Jacob Skaria


"Graham" wrote:

Hi i have a text string of 17 characters and I would like to only select
the
the first six characters starting on the right hand side eg
MALAC53JJA1234567, i want to display 234567. Hope it can be done ,thanks
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