Using Excel's Find and Mid to extract a substring when you don't know the start point.
In order to extract the first two characters that follow the dash, you’ll use the Find function to locate the dash and add 1 to that result. (The Find function returns the location of the dash; you want to start extracting characters beginning at the next character, the one following the dash.)
So our formula looks like this: =MID(A2,FIND("-",A2)+1,2)
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