There certainly is a filter feature. It's DataFilterAutoFilter. You'll
need a header row for it to operate on. Click on the down arrow of the
column you want to filter and try a custom filter of 'is greater than or
equal to' 'A'. This will filter out everything starting with a number, and
display everything starting with letters. Now delete all the rows on the
screen. Excel will delete only the rows being displayed. Go back to your
filter, turn it off, and you will have left only those cells which start
with a number (which is hopefully your phone numbers).

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"Tina Jones" wrote in message
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ok i started to follow the instructions about macros and it said something
about everything i do from now on with follow this macro using excel. um
dont
know about that one. so there is no basic sort, filter or edit feature i
can
use in excel that will delete everything except the phone numbers?

"Ragdyer" wrote:

Check out this web page of David McRitchie.
It should give you an introduction into being able to utilize Bob's code.

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm
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RD

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"Tina Jones" wrote in message
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thank you MaR i will try that now.

"MaR" wrote:

Try to use Bob's text with ToolsMacroVisual Basic Editor

"Tina Jones" wrote:

bob i have no idea what that even means. sorry im not to excel
savoy.
please
be patient with me, are those commands or values that i type
somewhere
like a
command? where would i use what you told me to use?
thank you very much too!
-TINA

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Does this do it

Sub FormatData()
Dim iLastRow As Long
Dim i As Long

iLastRow = Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row
For i = iLastRow To 1 Step -1
If Not IsNumeric(Cells(i, "A").Value) Then
Rows(i).Delete
End If
Next i

End Sub

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RP
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"Tina Jones" <Tina wrote in
message
...
first off thanks you guys for taking the time to help. i have
got
alot of
info from the forums. ok here is my latest adventure! i am
trying
to
create a
list of phone numbers for my boss. he asked me to pull out
every
phone
number
on his phone bills and make a list using excel. now his bills
are
in PDF
formatt and i have purchased a PDF to excel converter and it
works
great,
my
issue is once im in excel i want to extract or copy all the
phone
numbers,
is
that possible? so far ive just been able to delete alot of
unwanted text
and
contect that carries over from the PDF and narrow it down to
only
2 colums
(A
and B) but there is still a few things i dont need like text
that
reads
"incomig" ect and ive been deleting row by row and sometimes
there
are
1200+
rows and thats just taking way to much time. im thinking there
has
to be a
way that once i have all the data in excel i can just copy all
the
phone
numbers in the doc? im using office pro 03, can someone help
this
girl
out?
thanks