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    Removal of characters within cell

    I have an issue, where in one cell i have a text field containing for example "KH-35" however i need to remove the alpha characters from this to contain only the numbers is there a way to complete this?

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    Re: Removal of characters within cell

    Is there a pattern to the entries?
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    Re: Removal of characters within cell

    yeas alway the first 3 characters i need to remove.... examples
    KH-
    NT-
    TW-

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    Re: Removal of characters within cell

    Try:

    =REPLACE(A1,1,3,"")+0

    where A1 contains the original
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    Re: Removal of characters within cell

    Thats Fantastic!! thanks for that!!

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