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So the digits are inside parentheses?


If the six digits are inside parentheses, use this (replacing A1 for whatever cell):

=MID(LEFT(A1,FIND(")",A1)-1),FIND("(",A1)+1,LEN(A1))


If they aren't, could you just use the RIGHT function?

=RIGHT(A1,6)

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