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I have some cells that have five digits, I want to take only the first three
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A1 = 5 digit number
=value(LEFT(A1,3))

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I have some cells that have five digits, I want to take only the first three
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pleas can you help me?

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try,

=left(a1,3)

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I have some cells that have five digits, I want to take only the first three
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pleas can you help me?

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Hi MFS,

You can use following function, assuming you have the data in cell A1:-
=VALUE(MID(A1,1,3))

Note: - In the formula, you can increast "3" to get more and less numbers
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