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Default Removing text from cells

The below formula will extract contents from the 1st numeric onwards..Try
and post back whether this will work for all your data?

spray 2.5oz -------------will return 2.5oz
body spray 2.5oz -------will return 2.5oz

=MID(A1,MIN(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A1&"01234 56789")),LEN(A1))


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"don wonnell" wrote:

Have Excel 2002, want to remove text from cells and leave the numerical data
in those cells intact. Don't see a method for this in worksheet functions
listed by category / text & data.
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