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Default EXTRACTING NUMBERS FROM A TEXT CELL

Hello!

Currently I am unable to download information from the accounting system in a better format. So one line of information come into Excel in one cell, hence, the example below:

@1 0325@1 OPENING BALANCE : .....ESTIMATED COST - MATERIAL@1< 813,936.29

There are two things I need to learn he

1) How can I extract just the number.
1a) I tried the using the formula: =RIGHT(A1, 11) and i was able to extract the number, however, i faced two problems.
1c) The 1st problem was that the extracted number came out as a text and I was unable to do any mathematical operation on it, such as, addtion.
1b) The 2nd problem was that I had to change the 'num chars' in the formula as the numbers are on varoius lengths.

2) How can I parse the data once in Excel, if I want to do that.

Thanks in advance
SJ

 
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