RIGHT

Takes characters from the end of text.

How it’s written

RIGHT(text, count)

Example

A
1Code
2NOR-4821
=RIGHT(A2,4)

Result: 4821

Takes the last 4 characters.

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Worth knowing

The result is text, even if it looks like a number.

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