Thanks Teethless mama, almost there.

My description was probably not complete.
The cell may contain several instances of HW0xxxxx, not just two. I used
your command statement and it worked well for two occurrances of the string,
but any more than that it did not find.

Thanks for any further help.

"Teethless mama" wrote:

=TRIM(IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("HW",A1)),MID(A1,FIND("HW", A1),8)&"
"&IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("HW",A1,FIND("HW",A1)+1)),MID(A 1,FIND("HW",A1,FIND("HW",A1)+1),8),""),""))


"BRB" wrote:

Have a variation to a previous question:
Need to copy a string of characters from one cell to another. Here is what
the cell looks like:

Cells:
A1 = Some text, HW012345, more text, HW034567, more text
A2 = Some text
A3 = Some text, HW056783, more text, HW035791, more text

In column B I need the following result:
B1 = HW012345 HW034567
B2 = (blank)
B3 = HW056783 HW035791

Thanks for any help