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Default wildcard for numbers only

I would do this via Word. Copy to Word. In Word, go to Edit, Replace. Enable
Wildcards. In the Find What: field enter [0-9] and do not enter anything in
the Replace With: field. Press Replace All. Copy the contents of the cells to
Excel.

"Elbrian" wrote:

I'm trying to do a FIND-REPLACE on a list of alpha-numeric figures. I want
to eliminate just the numbers. For instance, I want to REPLACE "45DOR143"
with "DOR". Trouble is when I do a FIND for "*DOR*" I also FIND "DORMANT"
and other cells which I don't want to replace and have to manually change
those words so they don't trigger the search. (I make the search case
sensitive and make a letter in the cell I don't want lower case).

Anyway, is there a wildcard which will look only for numbers?