Hello, I appreciate you taking the time to help here. It did get me thinking in another direction through. Maybe if I extract each year into its own cell, trim the first two numbers off each and put these new values back together. Might it be better to modify the formula in my original post to extract the last 2 numbers and string out the capacity to do up to 20 words. I have tried this but I don't have enough understanding of the formula to do this. Just a note: each original number will always have 4 characters and they will always be numbers. Thanks again..