Number Format from text to number with decimals

troyh68

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I have a string of number 172103000. This is a smart Item number form an erp system. The last 5 digits are the length of the item, for this example it is 03000. I first used the RIGHT function and pulled out the 03000. Now this is a text and I used VALUE to convert to a number. Now I need to add a decimal so that the length is 30.00 and not 3000.00. I have others that are 02560. I would need this to be 25.60 and I cannot figure this out.

I included a screenshot to help tell my story.

Thank you in advance for the help.
Troy
 

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I figured this out. I was making this way too hard. I took the Value in Column D and divided by 100, formatted the cell to number with decimal of 2 and it worked.

Troy
 
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You're welcome & thanks for the feedback.
 
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