From: L. Howard Kittle on
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HTH
Regrds,
Howard


"Helen Maguire" <Helen Maguire(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> ,I have SD03*10 in a cell and I want in a separate cell, just to have the
> numbers after the *. Obviously with lots of data, the digits after the *
> could be 1 to many characters so I cannot use the Left function.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated so I don't waste any more time!