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Default Stripping nubers from text in a cell

*Maybe* this:

Assuming the number is *always* at the beginning of the string and that
there are no other numbers in the string.

=TRIM(MID(A1,SUM(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},"")))+1,25 5))


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Biff
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"Dan S" wrote in message
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I have a bunch of cell with varying lench that have numbers at the
beginning
(also of varying length. Ex:

1258 ahjKJ yuUIOI
45687045HJKoiuwER

I just want to extract the text from these cell. How do I do that?

Thanks,
Dan