On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:24:01 -0700, jyin
wrote:

does anyone know how to extract the number from an imported cell if the cell
contains both text and numbers?
eg. the cell contains "USD 30.79 (March 27, 2007)" but i want to use only
30.79 in a formula in another cell

It depends on your format.

If your format is like the above, where the number to be extracted is always
the first "number value" in the string, then:

=LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,--MID(
A1,MIN(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A1
&"0123456789")),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1)))))

will do what you want.

If your format variations are more complex, then you will need to post more
information.
--ron