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MartinW
 
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Default IF Cell Contents Start with STRING

Here's Dave Peterson's answer to a similar question in another forum. It
might help a little.


How about adding another column, then extract the first 5 digits of that
value.

=left(B2,5)
(if they're always 10 characters)

or
=left(text(b2,rept("0",10)),5)

or something????

Then use that column to extract the data.


 
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