And if you are using 2007 you may have very long text entries in the cell, in
which case

=MID(C6,9,9^9)

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Shane Devenshire


"bg" wrote:

Good Morning,
Is there a way to take data from the point in the cell that it contains a -
(hyphen)
for example, the length can chg but it will always be 6 numbers and then a
hypen and then the part I want (ie . Sales order 1 etc..)

123456 - Sales order 1
234567 - Sales order 15