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Yes, only the sixth to eleventh characters are required and these may be extracted with the MID function. MID is a string function that returns Text but a double unary operator should trigger Sheet...
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- Yes, only the sixth to eleventh characters are required and these may be extracted with the [MID](https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3094129) function. MID is a string function that returns Text but a double unary operator should trigger Sheets' automatic date detection and display as `44105` when in default format:
- =--mid(A1,6,11)
- Yes, only the sixth to eleventh characters are required and these may be extracted with the [MID](https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3094129) function. MID is a string function that returns Text but a double unary operator should trigger Sheets' automatic date detection and display as `44105` when in default format:
- =--mid(A1,6,11)
- The same formula works in Excel and LibreOffice Calc, given suitable delimiters.
#1: Initial revision
Yes, only the sixth to eleventh characters are required and these may be extracted with the [MID](https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3094129) function. MID is a string function that returns Text but a double unary operator should trigger Sheets' automatic date detection and display as `44105` when in default format: =--mid(A1,6,11)