On Apr 30, 10:46*am, Jeff wrote:
=Left(A1,14)

Pulls the first 14 characters from the cell.

Jeff



"pat67" wrote:
I have a sheet that i downloaded from our erp system that has one
column with text. the text is long and descriptive. the only thing is
the same is that there is one piece that starts with QN then a blank
then 11 numbers like this. QN 40000152489. What i want to do is pull
that from the text cell to another cell. Is that possible?
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can't use left, the QN could be anywhere in the text