You are correct!
MID(A4,5,2) is just as good.

RIGHT(A4,2)
not so good......consider 20097
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"Joe M." wrote:

It works great! But I don't understand why its necessary to use 256 in
MID(A4,5,256) instead of MID(A4,5,2) or even RIGHT(A4,2). Maybe you can shed
some light on that. Thanks!

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

=DATE(LEFT(A4,4),MID(A4,5,256),1)
and format as mmm-yyyy
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