Formatting celle with LEFT

deuxo

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I am using the following function in a cell(A2)
=LEFT(A1,5), where I am trying to return the first 5 characters from A1, however I am unable to formatt cell A2. Anyone know how to format a cell that uses the LEFT function?
 

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If I undertand your question correctly, I want to format the text, in my case I want to convert to a date.
 
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To format the result as date you should convert it to a value by using the value command. Your formula would be:

=Value(Left(a1,5))

Ricky
 
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