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Quote jbalbo Replybullet Topic: take all but last 3 characters??
     Posted: 20 Feb 2013 at 6:18am
Hi,

How would I format a field to display all but the right 3 characters?

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Quote bwsanders Replybullet Posted: 20 Feb 2013 at 7:43am
Left({field}, 3) should work for you
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 21 Feb 2013 at 5:19am
I think you will need somthing a little different.
This will only work as long as all of your fields are longer than 3 characters
 
Left({field}, len({field})-3 )
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Quote jbalbo Replybullet Posted: 21 Feb 2013 at 5:40am
Yes that worked

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