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Default FIND text within text then sum

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"Dhazmo" wrote in message
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Hi,

Column A contains text and numbers with some recurring text ie
1234 xxx 098
1342 xxx 878
5642 xxx 456

Column B contains a number.

I need to sum column b on selected text criteria in Column A. I can't use
LEN or RIGHT as the number of characters in column A are never the same
and
there isn't always a space between numbers and text. I thought trying to
use
a SUMPRODUCT with a FIND as one of the array options, but for the life of
me
can't make it work.

Help please