So....Am I Smarter Than You?

Probably not...becasue it took me "more than I wish to divulge in public" hours to figure out that =LEFT would identify a string of 4 letters for me. So that probably tells you that I am a noob of the excel formula use, but my curious mind, once set to a task, cannot stop until my problem is solved and I am on hour twelve. Look for my question in the "Area suitable for questions" if you are smarter than I!