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Excellent - thank you!<br />
I wish I could figure that out on my own! :-)
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Excellent - thank you!
I wish I could figure that out on my own! :-)

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I have 1000's of records in a spreadsheet. I one of the columns I have information that i need to remove the first 5 characters.<br />
I can't figure it out for the life of me...<br />
Thank you!
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I have 1000's of records in a spreadsheet. I one of the columns I have information that i need to remove the first 5 characters.
I can't figure it out for the life of me...
Thank you!

Excel Import - remove first 5 characters in a cell

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