Excel - COLUMN Function Problem - Expert Solution

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I have 500 numbers in column A with aproximatly 15digits. In column B I have 5 numbers with 6 digits Can a find a formula wich can transfer all numbers from A column wich start with some 6 digitsa from B column
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User 25/03/2018 - 11:43
2013
User 25/03/2018 - 11:43
more than 1 hr
Excelchat Expert 25/03/2018 - 11:44
Hello
User 25/03/2018 - 11:44
can I show on the scree here like example what I need?
User 25/03/2018 - 11:44
hello
Excelchat Expert 25/03/2018 - 11:44
So can you share the file
Excelchat Expert 25/03/2018 - 11:44
Yes sure
User 25/03/2018 - 11:44
no
User 25/03/2018 - 11:44
ok I'll show
User 25/03/2018 - 11:44
1 min
User 25/03/2018 - 11:45
like that
User 25/03/2018 - 11:45
but my column]
User 25/03/2018 - 11:45
A
User 25/03/2018 - 11:46
is very big
User 25/03/2018 - 11:46
every day
User 25/03/2018 - 11:46
Is hard to fiind everytime
User 25/03/2018 - 11:46
I need a formula who can find all numbers from A wich start with B numbers
User 25/03/2018 - 11:46
and transfer in C ALL
User 25/03/2018 - 11:46
all
Excelchat Expert 25/03/2018 - 11:47
Hmm, I see
User 25/03/2018 - 11:47
I think is VLOOKUP here
Excelchat Expert 25/03/2018 - 11:47
how many numbers are there in B?
User 25/03/2018 - 11:48
every day different
User 25/03/2018 - 11:48
t aproximatly 20
User 25/03/2018 - 11:49
and in A column can be 500 or 1000
Excelchat Expert 25/03/2018 - 11:49
let me think a bit
User 25/03/2018 - 11:49
ok
User 25/03/2018 - 12:04
sorry, are you still here?
Excelchat Expert 25/03/2018 - 12:06
yes, just wait a bit more
User 25/03/2018 - 12:06
ok sorry
Excelchat Expert 25/03/2018 - 12:13
here
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Excelchat Expert 25/03/2018 - 12:14
there are two extra columns D and E
Excelchat Expert 25/03/2018 - 12:14
You can hide those
Excelchat Expert 25/03/2018 - 12:14
So what D is doing is extracting the first 6 digit of A
Excelchat Expert 25/03/2018 - 12:15
and after that I am copy pasting D in E as "Values"....
User 25/03/2018 - 12:15
ok thank you very very much

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