Actually mine was exactly that, left the numeric part.

The OP should therefore use

=LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1)

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HTH

Bob Phillips

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)

"Sean" wrote in message
oups.com...
Got the formula below from this NG to extract only numeric values,
don't understand it but it works.

=(MID('Prices'!AC2,MATCH(FALSE,ISERROR(1*MID('Pric es'!
AC2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN('Prices'!AC2))),1)),0),L EN('Prices'!AC2)-
SUM(1*ISERROR(1*MID('Prices'!AC2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:" &LEN('Prices'!AC2))),
1))))*1)/100


On Jan 31, 11:01 am, "Sean" wrote:
I have the exact opposite requirement i.e. to remove all the alpha
values and just leave the numeric, although mine is slightly easier in
that its a Web query that pulls some stock prices, thus I see a tail
"p" which I don't want

On Jan 31, 10:34 am, "Bob Phillips" wrote:



=MID(A1,MIN(IF(ISERROR(1*(MID(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("A1: A"&LEN(A1))),1))),
255,ROW(INDIRECT("A1:A"&LEN(A1))))),99)

which is an array formula, it should be committed with
Ctrl-Shift-Enter, not
just Enter.
Excel will automatically enclose the formula in braces (curly
brackets), do
not try to do this manually.
When editing the formula, it must again be array-entered.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my
addy)

"ah" wrote in message

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Hi;

Can anyone advice me on how to :
extract all the wording in a cell except the numeric value, for
example:
Example:
For ABCDDEFG 1234------- I want it to appear as ABCDEFG for me
only.
For ABC198765------------- I want it to appear as ABC for me only

Previously I'm using the left function as follows:
=LEFT(INDIRECT("Sheet1!A"&ROW()),8)

However, for the above formula to work, I need to know the exact
number of
characters that I'm going to extract. Please advice whether there is
any
other alternative solution for this. For your information, the
numeric
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