Conditional formatting for length of text string

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I have a list of numbers stored as text and I want to conditionally format the column to highlight those text stings longer or shorter than 11 characters... can someone help me out with the formula I need??
 

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Hi and welcome to the board!!
CF, Formula Is
Code: 
=(LEN(A1)<>11)*LEN(A1)<>0
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