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Extracting characters from text sting

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    Extracting characters from text sting

    I have a long series of dates in the form MM/DD/YYYY and need to use the year (YYYY) and get rid of the rest. Any way I can do this?

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    Try

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Phillips View Post
    Try

    =YEAR(A1)
    Perfect! Thanks!

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