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I need to take the string of characters from one cell and split it into 3
separate cells. Is there a formula that can accomplish this?
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Default how to copy first 2 characters only from prior cell

You could use datatext to columnsfixed
or
=left(a1,2)
or mid(a1,1,2)

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I need to take the string of characters from one cell and split it into 3
separate cells. Is there a formula that can accomplish this?


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