datafilterautofilterfilter on column desiredcustomcontainsupc
voila
or a looping macro using if INSTR
or a formula
=IF(ISERROR(SEARCH("upc",H2)),"",H2)

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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"klafert" wrote in message
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I have a spreadsheet with 390 rows. In one column I have data such as
this:


6" MARGINATA UPC#200653

Some of the lines have UPC# and some don't. The ones that do I would like
to extract out to another column. Thanks for any help!!!