Thank you David, it worked OK.

"David Biddulph" wrote:

You might need to explain what sort of time 05:87 is. For most of us, there
are only 60 minutes in an hour, and only 60 seconds in a minute. If you
have text such as 0527-1856 in column A, and you want to get a time of
05:27, try =--TEXT(LEFT(A1,4),"00\:00") and format as time to suit.
--
David Biddulph


"Kimti" wrote in message
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I am trying to delete some numbers from a column for example:

column A has total duration of a task times 0587-1856 and I would like to
have column B with only first four numbers 05:87 (start time for the
task).

Please help on this formula.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Kimti


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