With the examples you show it may be just as easy to copy column D to
E then use DataText to ColumnsDelimited bySpace.

In third step select all columns but the device column and "Skip"
those.

Just the devices will stay in E.


Gord

On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:03:19 +0000, St3ffl3sx13
wrote:


Hello,

I have a large database of information found down column D that was
extracted from a program I use at work. The program jumbled all of the
important data into one cell. In these cells contains device names
which they are linked to. Example:

D10: B40148.9 CV-19 AVB MAN PL RAM 00089
D11: B40147.10 CV-10 RUNNING PL RAM 00074
D12: B40148.5 FA-05 AVB MAN PL RAM 00085

The device names are CV-10, CV-19, and FA-05. These are only a few
devices as there are about 30 total. So what I would like to do is go
down the list of devices I have and enter a device (Ex. FA-05) and have
excel automatically search all the cells down column D and the ones with
the (FA-05) text in the cell copy the device name (FA-05) into the
corresponding cell in column E.

Any help with this is greatly appreciated since I am new to this forum
and to macros and VBA.

Thank you,

-AS