This was posted yesterday, with an unclear subject line. Sorry.
Hopefully, this subject line will draw some helpful suggestions.
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Both# 1 and # 2, below, were made by doing an actual live macro recording.
The first one doesn't work, the second one does.
Am I overlooking something obvious?

1: ' Select JO# (left Side Only) from A5 and Paste in C3
Range("C3").Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=LEFT(R[2]C[-2],FIND(""-"",R[2]C[-2])-1))"
Range("C4").Select

2 ' Select JO# (Right Side Only) from A5 and Paste in B5
' Copy down to Last Row
Range("B5").Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 =
"=VALUE(RIGHT(RC[-1],LEN(RC[-1])-FIND(""-"",RC[-1])))"
Range("B6").Select