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Default filtering out text from numbers

You can put this in a helper column and copy down

=IF(ISTEXT(A1),A1,"")

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"simonsmith" wrote:


Hi,
I have a long column of data, some cells have numbers in the cells some
with text.
I want to get the numbers out. Any ideas on a formula for this?

Thanks

Simon


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