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  1. Hello, how can I pull this date from string 2/23/2078 ADM to 2/23/2078.

    PS this is bikaram shambat
    Waiting for response.

  2. Thanks it really worked.

  3. How would I extract only the largest number from a text string? Eg. if I had a string such as asd7adh8ash6 and I need just the 8 extracted.

    1. Hello!
      Extract the numbers from the text as described in the article above and use the MAX function to choose the maximum.

      =MAX(IF(ISNUMBER(--MID(A1,ROW($1:$94),1)), --MID(A1,ROW($1:$94),1)," "))

      1. This doesn’t seem to work as I keep getting a #VALUE! error.

        1. I now have gotten it to work. However, I sometimes have double digit numbers that I need to extract. Ex adhh6asbf17asd5
          So, I need 17 rather than 7. Thanks for your help!

          1. Hi!
            I'm sorry you're not asking the right question.
            To extract the maximum two-digit number from text, try the formula:

            =MAX(IF(ISNUMBER(--MID(A1,ROW($1:$100),2)),--MID(A1,ROW($1:$100),2),""))

  4. Hello,

    How can I get the string of numbers from this text to populate with the formula but also include the dash

    Ex. 51-1780 Expenses Parent : Travel Expense

    I used the following formula and it worked but I need the dash

    1. Hello!
      To extract numbers from the text along with dash, try the formula

      =TEXTJOIN("",TRUE, IFERROR(MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))),1)*1, IF(MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))),1)="-","-","")))

      1. Thanks, Alexander,

        Excel shows me "You've entered too few arguments for this function"

        1. Hi!
          The formula works. What version of Excel are you using and what are the separators in the formula?

          1. Thanks for the swift answer, Alex,

            I found out the issue, it works now, but it takes all the numbers in a string and merges them into one. How can I take only the last 14 symbols (with dashes) from the right side of the cell?

            Thank you,
            Eldar

      2. Sorry replied to the wrong question

  5. Hi, the formula =IF(SUM(LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2, {"0","1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9"}, "")))>0, SUMPRODUCT(MID(0&A2, LARGE(INDEX(ISNUMBER(--MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("$1:$"&LEN(A2))),1))* ROW(INDIRECT("$1:$"&LEN(A2))),0), ROW(INDIRECT("$1:$"&LEN(A2))))+1,1) * 10^ROW(INDIRECT("$1:$"&LEN(A2)))/10),"") does not work on numbers with decimals.

    1. Hi!
      This formula cannot extract the decimal number because the decimal separator is not a digit.
      To extract a delimited number from text, try this formula:

      =TEXTJOIN("",TRUE, IFERROR(MID(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1))),1)*1, IF(MID(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1))),1)=".",".","")))

  6. Billed days vs Amount of a person I have put in a concatenated formula:
    {=CONCATENATE(COUNTIF(E4:AI4,8)+(COUNTIF(E4:AI4,4)/2),"/",(IFERROR(VLOOKUP(C4,'Master'!$C$4:$P$35,14,FALSE)*(COUNTIF(E4:AI4,8)+(COUNTIF(E4:AI4,4)/2)),"")))}

    Value comes to be 21/3525
    Using your formula {=VALUE(RIGHT(D4,LEN(D4)-3))} I get the value to be 3525 !!! PERFECT

    But if there is half day of resource the above value becomes 20.5/3125, using the same {=VALUE(RIGHT(D4,LEN(D4)-3))} formula, I get a number 9852358 or so... This disturbs the entire calculation for the month!

    What formula can I use to get the right cost if a person takes half day off (so 4 hours instead of 8) so the monthly cost comes right?

      1. @Alexander Trifuntov - The solution worked !!!
        THANK YOU

  7. Hiya,

    Do you know how I can extract the first number in a string? Example below

    Cell value = dasd adas adsad 001234 dasd adas adsa 06253
    Expected result = 001234

    Thanks,

    Kim

  8. Hi, I used your formula for my data, and it works!
    But the problem is the number extracted is only the number, how if I need to extract number with point?

    For example:
    "afhb jafbjdk 2.60sad aksd" to be "2.60"

    Thank you

    1. Hello!
      To extract all numbers and dots from text try this formula -

      =TEXTJOIN("",TRUE, IFERROR(MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))),1)*1, IF(MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))),1)=".", ".","")))

      I hope it’ll be helpful.

  9. i have lot of different word, like these 08048K0922, 45002CVC922, 9.5050K0722, 10.505CVC0722 i want to separate text specific value from that words like 08K,45CVC or 45CV, 9.5K, 10.5CV or CVC. how can i doing this?

  10. how to separate only numbers from mixed letters from a cell in excel.
    NEFT/TB/AXTB222710184240/AMARF

  11. This is sheet Winter ParkDownload cell B2

    Private Dbl Queen Room Deposit (Amount: 750.00 US
    Arrive on Saturday (Amount: 240.00 USD)
    Sunday Lift Ticket (Amount: 160.00 USD)
    Service Fee (Amount: 15.00 USD)
    Total: 1,165.00 USD

    Is there a formula to take the Total 1,16500 in cell B2 to another tab on the same sheet called WinterPark, Cell M8. I only want to have the Total $ amount to the cell not the text "total" Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Chuck

  12. HOW CAN WE EXRACT THE SPECFIC NUMERIC AND TEXT FROM THIS STRING "EXIT 2000x500 KB"
    OUTPUT SHOULD "2000x500".. PLEASE SOMEONE SHOULD EXPLAIN THIS QUERY.

  13. I need to extract a number from a string of text and the number is sometimes negative and sometimes positive. Can these formulas be modified to capture the negative sign with the number? Thank you! p.s. I love the ablebits Excel add-in!

    1. Hello!
      To extract a negative number from text, try this formula:

      =--(IF(MID(A1;MIN(FIND({0\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9};A1&"_0123456789"))-1;1)="-"; MID(A1;MIN(FIND({0\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9};A1&"_0123456789"))-1;1);"") & SUMPRODUCT(MID(0&A1; LARGE(INDEX(ISNUMBER(--MID(A1;ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1)));1))*ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1)));0); ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1))))+1;1)*10^ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1)))/10))

      I hope it’ll be helpful.

  14. I have a cell valeu as 1 hr 30 min or 4 hours and other as 4 hrs 20 mins, I need to extracrt hr value in one coloumn and min vaue in other colomn, to calculate the total time elapsed, can you please suggest a way to do so, because data is filled by someone so using =LEFT(I3,FIND("hr",I3)-1) value does not work always as "hr" could be written as "Hr", "Hrs" or "hours". Need your help on this one.

    For Example
    1 hr 30 min should come out as 1.5 hrs
    24 hrs should come out 24 hrs
    17 hrs 20 mins should come out as 17.3 hrs

  15. How can I use the string of number position to return #name#
    e.g TF220721054112, if the 8th position read as '1' then the result to returned as #IMPORT#.
    If the 8th position read as '4' then the value returned as #Structure#

    Appreciate your advice.

    1. Thank you so much. Appreciate your help.

  16. Need Result Like
    one cell value 9871541 and second cell only 9852 so i want match second cell value to first
    if second cell starting digit match with first cell starting digit then give value or highlight that cell

  17. Hi, How to extract number from combination of 4".
    Thanks
    Sandeep

    1. Hi!
      Have you tried the ways described in this blog post? Pay attention to the second paragraph: How to extract number from the beginning of text string.

  18. Hi I need to extract Roman number from below text

    School Package + Live Classes Yearly,IX(1) | School Package + Live Classes Yearly,X(1) | School Package + Live Classes Yearly,VII(1) | School Package + Live Classes Yearly,VIII(1)

    Result:- IX,X,VII,VIII

  19. Hi i need to extract number from below text
    -p00881-shahwar taskeen-2-d-5/4 nazimabad no 2 -0322-2929699 : 021-36684652-1-blvrd crnr-precinct-38-street 04 & link road 04

    Number i wanna generate the number is 0322-2929699

    What will be the formula

    1. Hi!
      Your data does not contain any template by which you can determine the desired section of text. If such a pattern exists, please describe it.
      To extract part of the text, you can use the MID function.

      =MID(A1,49,13)

      But I don't think that this will work for all data.

      1. Can u guide me how to sort this data

  20. Hi there. I appreciate the detailed approach to this challenge. I have the following text:

    "[SW] 183 Patterson -- WAN1 DOWN -- PL"

    I'm using the formula above "How to get number from any position in a string"

    Instead of returning 183, it returns 1831 - adding an extra 1 at the end?

    Another text:

    [SW] 016 Bremerton -- Router DOWN -- PWR" returns 16 instead of 016?

    All thoughts are very much appreciated.

    1. Hello!
      Your first example has 4 digits. All of them are returned by the formula. In the second example, the result is returned as a number, not as text. Excel removes leading zeros from numbers.
      To extract numbers as text, try this formula:

      =CONCAT(IF(ISNUMBER(--MID(A2,ROW($1:$100),1)),MID(A2,ROW($1:$100),1),""))

      You can also extract numbers from text using regular expressions (Regex). I recommend this tutorial with examples: Regex to extract number from string.

  21. Hi,

    Thanks for sharing this very helpful code. I have a problem with number that has digit like 1.5 or 3.70 it turn to 15 and 370. Could you please guide me how to fix that :)

    Thanks again!

    1. Hello!
      To extract a number with a decimal separator from text, use the formula:

      =CONCAT(IFERROR(MID(A2,(ISNUMBER(--MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("$1:$"&LEN(A2))),1))+ (MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("$1:$"&LEN(A2))),1)="."))* ROW(INDIRECT("$1:$"&LEN(A2))),1),""))

      I hope I answered your question.

  22. This formula looks so close to what I need. I'm wondering if someone wouldn't mind showing me how to tweak it to suit my requirement?

    We receive many payments each day with various narratives, I would like to automatically identify references which are 7 digit number beginning with "13" or "14". Examples below and to the right is the currently formula result.

    I am using this formula, essentially copied from above comments and info - I think I need to have the result only report back when the sequence beginning with "13" or "14" is 7 digits in length.

    Any thoughts?

    =IF(SUM(LEN(A22)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A22, {"13","14"}, "")))>0, SUMPRODUCT(MID(0&A22, LARGE(INDEX(ISNUMBER(--MID(A22,ROW(INDIRECT("$1:$"&LEN(A22))),1))* ROW(INDIRECT("$1:$"&LEN(A22))),0), ROW(INDIRECT("$1:$"&LEN(A22))))+1,1) * 10^ROW(INDIRECT("$1:$"&LEN(A22)))/10),"")

    PAYMENT FROM MR SIMON ZHAO LPSPR 8486 No result-correct
    TRANSFER 1322500 midas prch FROM SOON LEGAL 1322500-Correct
    TRANSFER Ref 1401272 Susann FROM J BOGAN 1401272-Correct
    PAYMENT FROM MS NILU JONCHHE Lot 136/Carseldine + Lot136/Carseldine 136136 - Incorrect
    0491400550 HORNSBY 491400550-Incorrect
    TRANSFER 1398031 FROM SETTLEMENT FUNDS 1398031-Correct

    Thank you

    1. Hi!
      To extract 7 digit number beginning with “13” or “14” from text, you can use the formula

      =(MID(A2,SEARCH(" 13",A2)+1,7)* ISNUMBER(--MID(A2,SEARCH(" 13",A2)+1,7)))* ((--MID(A2,SEARCH(" 13",A2)+1,7)* ISNUMBER(--MID(A2,SEARCH(" 13",A2)+1,7))) > = 1000000)*(MID(A2,SEARCH(" 13",A2)+8,1)=" ")

      For the number "14", replace "13" with "14" in the formula.
      You can also use regular expressions to extract numbers from text.
      At the link above you will find detailed explanations and examples of how to extract text and numbers from a string. Here is an example formula that will solve your problem:

      =RegExpExtract(A1&" "; "\s[1][34]\d{5}\s")

      I hope it’ll be helpful. If something is still unclear, please feel free to ask.

  23. Hi, i need to extract a group of text from a cell, and sum them together. before i begin, i would like to clrify that, I am not an Excel pro user like accountant. I'm using it as a data link between AUTOCAD and EXCEL. so, please bear with me.

    A B c
    1 YES 1800/ 900/ 1200 X 500 3900
    2 NO 600/ 100/ 300/ 20 X 15 0

    YES and NO is in column A (row 1 and 2 respectively). while the number is in column B. and the sum will appear in column C next to each row. i'm looking for a formula to extract 1800, 900, and 1200 to sum it up into 3900 (1800+900+1200), and it only extract and sum it when the column A says "YES", and will not do the sum when A says "NO".

    1. sorry, the sample text arrangement went wrong.

      ignore the A,B,C above the sample and 1,2 on the left

      1. Hi!
        You can extract numbers from text using substring functions with these formulas:

        =--LEFT(B1,SEARCH("/",B1)-1)
        =--MID(B1,SEARCH("/",B1)+1,SEARCH("/",B1,SEARCH("/",B1)+1)-1-SEARCH("/",B1))
        =--MID(B1,SEARCH("/",B1,SEARCH("/",B1)+1)+1,SEARCH("X",B1)-1-SEARCH("/",B1,SEARCH("/",B1)+1))

        Write the condition using the IF function:

        =IF(A1="YES",=--LEFT(B1,SEARCH("/",B1)-1),"")

        General formula for three numbers with condition:

        =IF(A1="YES",LEFT(B1,SEARCH("/",B1)-1)+ MID(B1,SEARCH("/",B1)+1, SEARCH("/",B1,SEARCH("/",B1)+1)-1-SEARCH("/",B1))+ MID(B1,SEARCH("/",B1,SEARCH("/",B1)+1)+1, SEARCH("X",B1)-1- SEARCH("/",B1,SEARCH("/",B1)+1)),"")

        1. i see. Thanks for your help. i will need some times to explore what you shared with me. looking at the formula you gave, is killing my brain. lol. will get back to you how it goes.

          Thanks again for sharing

    2. sorry, the sample text arrangement went wrong.

      YES 1800/ 900/ 1200 X 500 = 3900
      NO 600/ 100/ 300/ 20 X 15 = 0

  24. Hey i have some problem.

    My job is to extract number from a cell. A cell has 4 digits of randomly generated number (ABCD). So i want to automatically extract number A into one cell, B into one cell and the rest. and sometimes i need to extract 2 number from the same cell. is there a clean way to do it?

    1. Hi!
      To extract the first digit from a number, use the LEFT function.
      LEFT(A1,1)
      To extract the second digit use the MID function.
      MID(A1,2,1)
      Also, use MID to extract the third and all other digits.
      MID(A1,3,20)
      Look for the example formulas here: Excel substring functions to extract text from cell.
      These functions extract a digits as text. To convert it to a number, use these guidelines: Turn text into number with mathematic operations.
      I hope it’ll be helpful.

  25. This was so helpful. I appreciate the effort of the team. Cheers!!!

  26. This was very helpful, thanks!

  27. Hi I hope you could help me!
    I have some prices i need to extract...

    ?XIAOMI?
    ?Redmi 9A 32GB/2R 399.900 A,G??
    ?Redmi 10 64GB 744.900 B??
    ?Redmi 10 128GB 839.900 G??
    ?Poco X3 128GB/8R 949.900 G,A ??
    ?Poco X3 Pro 128GB/6R 909.900 N??

    My question is... Is there a clean and simple way to only obtain the prices from this cellphones For example telling a formula to look for more than 4 consecutive numbers and extract them.

    Look at this...

    Redmi 9A 32GB/2R 399.900 A,G??

    When I use a formula to look for only numbers it extracts 9322399900
    I need something capable of skiping small number secuences and search for numbers bigger than (9A) (32GB) (2R) in this case 399000
    I know that I can search for common characters like ($) $399000 to use text to columns.
    But I have a wide range of providers that dont use any particular sign for me to use.

    1. Hello Simon,

      The only solution I can think of is using regular expressions. For this, you will need to add a custom RegExpExtract function to your workbook - the code and the detailed instructions are on the above-linked page.

      As for the regex pattern, I don't think searching for 4 consecutive numbers will work in your case, because the prices in your sample strings have a thousands separator (period). So, you can use the below regex to match a substring consisting of 1-3 digits, followed by a period (.), followed by 3 digits.

      Pattern: \b\d{1,3}\.\d{3}\b

      The above pattern will work for numbers ranging from 1.000 to 999.999. If your real dataset has a wider range of numbers, you'll have to adjust the pattern.

      1. Thanks a lot I have never heard of that so I will study about regex and tell you how it goes for me.

        1. It worked perfectly. Could you please help me adjust the pattern for millions. I tried to interpret your formula but i couldn´t understand which is the key to increment to millions
          I got some examples

          Store A Example
          Poco X3 Pro 8/256 GB $1’050.000 N-A ??
          Poco X3 GT 8/128 GB $1’230.000 ??
          Poco X3 GT 8/256gb $1.340.000 ??Blanco

          Store B Example
          IPHONE 12 MINI 64GB
          BLANCO
          $2.880.000

          IPHONE 12 MINI 128GB
          ROJO
          $3.100.000

          IPHONE 12 64GB
          BLANCO
          $3.300.000

          Store C Example
          11 pro max 256gb $4.200.000 negro????
          12 64gb $3.350.000 blanco verde negro????
          12 128gb $3.580.000 negro verde????
          12 pro max 256gb $5.100.000 azul????

          Store D Example
          POCO X3 GT 8/128 AZUL Y BLANCO
          $1’399.000??
          MI 10T LITE 6/128GB AZUL
          $ 1.235.000??
          MI 11 LITE 5G 6/128GB NEGRO
          $1’265.000??

          Store E Example
          Note 10 pro 128gb 6ram $1.329.000?? Azul
          Note 10 5G 128gb 4ram $949.900?? Gris
          Poco x3 pro de 128gb 6ram $ 924.900?? negro azul y bronce
          Poco x3 pro de 256GB 8ram $1.059.900?? Negro y azul
          Poco x3 GT 128gb 8ram $1.249.900?? azul negro y blanco

          There are like 15 stores sending prices over WhatsApp I would love to understand how to adjust the pattern in the most efficient way. I don´t have any problem cleaning the data before using the Regex Formula. I mean replacing... ( . , ’ ) all the characters between my prices.

      1. Thanks a lot I have never heard of that so I will study about regex and tell you how it goes for me.

        1. Thanks a lot. Both of your formulas worked great. Its amazing. I post some examples to Svetlana
          Because some of my prices are in Millions and i was not able to interpret the formula to make it take into account bigger numbers. My knowledge of excel and english is very limited but I´m thankfull of your help. I´ve been doing this process the large way for about 2 years.
          I could clean all of my data to have numbers without any signs. Example:

          iPhone 13 128GB 5000000
          iPhone 13 Pro 246GB 4500000
          iPhone 12 Pro Max 512GB 3650000

          Thanks in advance to all of you for your great work!

          1. Hi Simon,

            In case your prices have various delimiters like in the sample below, then cleaning the data before using the Regex formula is indeed the most effective way. As you said, first you remove all the characters between the prices (. , ’ ). And then, extract a number containing 4 or more digits using this simple regex:

            \d{4,}

  28. Hello Mr.Alexander Could you help me please I have example as below

    LG-101+CC100+S+22 11 21+625+3
    LG-101+CC100+S+22 11 21+625+300
    LG-101+CC109+M+22 11 21+609+220
    LG-76-2+92C+S+22 11 21+618+1140
    and I want to get only value after + at the end of the cell like below
    3
    300
    220
    1140

  29. It's works. You save my day.

  30. How to match the last five numbers of the 10 figure number or string

  31. I'm trying to extract number and the text attached to it, lets say I have a list of items with different sizes as 200ml & 300ml, I want to extract 200ml 300ml from the cell, and also remove it from the source cell, is there any way with or without your tool to do this?
    Thank you very much!

    1. Hi!
      I cannot guess what is written in your data. Therefore, I can not offer a solution. Use the SEARCH function to find values.
      Perhaps something like this:

      =IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("200ml",A1)),"200ml","")

      You can only remove some of the text from a cell using a VBA macro.

  32. What went wrong here?

    A2: 10-Hour Orchid Class
    B2: =LEFT(A2, MATCH(FALSE, ISNUMBER(MID(A2, ROW(INDIRECT( "1:"&LEN(A2)+1)), 1) *1), 0) -1)

    Evaluation:
    =LEFT(A2, MATCH(FALSE, ISNUMBER(MID(A2, ROW(INDIRECT( "1:"&LEN(A2)+1)), 1) *1), 0) -1)
    =LEFT(A2, MATCH(FALSE, ISNUMBER(MID(A2, ROW(INDIRECT( "1:"&20+1)), 1) *1), 0) -1)
    =LEFT(A2, MATCH(FALSE, ISNUMBER(MID(A2, ROW(INDIRECT( "1:"&21)), 1) *1), 0) -1)
    =LEFT(A2, MATCH(FALSE, ISNUMBER(MID(A2, ROW(INDIRECT( "1:21")), 1) *1), 0) -1)
    =LEFT(A2, MATCH(FALSE, ISNUMBER(MID(A2, ROW(INDIRECT($1:$21)), 1) *1), 0) -1)
    =LEFT(A2, MATCH(FALSE, ISNUMBER(MID(A2, 1, 1) *1), 0) -1)
    =LEFT(A2, MATCH(FALSE, ISNUMBER("1" *1), 0) -1)
    =LEFT(A2, MATCH(FALSE, ISNUMBER(1), 0) -1)
    =LEFT(A2, MATCH(FALSE, TRUE, 0) -1)
    =LEFT(A2,#N/A -1)
    =LEFT(A2,#N/A)
    =#N/A

    1. u can use below one

      =LEFT(A2,MATCH(FALSE,ISNUMBER(MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))),1)+0),0)-1)

      1. u can use below one with ctrl+shift+Enter

        =LEFT(A2,MATCH(FALSE,ISNUMBER(MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))),1)*1),0)-1)+0

      1. ROW(INDIRECT( "1:"&LEN(A2)+1)) seems to not be evaluating to a sequence, just the number 1 (1.00 to be precise). But I don't know why. On another machine, this formula worked.

  33. I would like to make a formula that can Extract the individual numbers from the example below. The numbers will change on either side of the x. My goal is to extract the single digits and place them in their own sell. The example below will be located in one cell group together again the digits will change depending on information.

    Example one .75 x 2 x 31
    Example two. 4 x 89 x 107

    .75 x 2 x 31 >>>> 0.75 2 31
    4 x 89 x 107 >>>> 4 89 107

    1. Replace (SpaceXSpace) with (Single ot Multiple Space/s).

  34. Hi All,

    I have a sentence in one cell and want to extract all the values in multiple columns e.g.

    Data in cellA1
    Total sales increased $58.9 billion or 4.5% from October 31, 2020 due increase in demand medical products by $15.2 billion or 2%

    I want all the Monetary values and % in different cells
    B1 = 58.9
    C1 = 4.5
    D1 = 15.2
    E1 = 2

      1. Hey Alex, I have tried those..but thats not helpful..as those are also extracting 31 and 2020 which is not relevant..Could you please help me on the same

        1. Hi!
          If you have a pattern in your data, you can write a formula that will remove the date. Only all numbers can be extracted from the text.

  35. I Textjoin row of cells. Only one contains date and time. Other cells, if NOT blank, contains text including numbers NOT dates.

    Textjoin works but date and time is now in serial format.

    How to convert that serial format within the Textjoin Output back to date and time?

    2. I solved by extract 9 consecutive digits (including decimals) but hope better solution such as avoiding indirect...
      =
      MAX(
      IFERROR(
      IF(
      LEN(
      VALUE(
      1*
      MID(
      $A$2,
      ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&(LEN($A$2)-9))),
      9)

      )
      )=9,
      VALUE(
      1*
      MID(
      $A$2,
      ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&(LEN($A$2)-9))),
      9)

      ),
      ""),""))

  36. Hi there,

    Is there one formula that can turn the below into "h:mm:ss"? The data source can be in below formats
    3h 31m
    8h
    51m 3s

  37. Hi!

    I am looking for a formula to return the first two digits of an account number

    ie account number1 =1212341234567000
    account number2 =0812341234567000

    I want to be able to return just 12 for account 1 and 08 for account 2. (I then want to assign a name for each of these first two digits).

    Please help :)

    1. =LEFT(CELLNUMBER1;2)

  38. Hello, thanks for your help! Can you please help with the following:
    Each row corresponds to one cell:

    53QBx13 bunches Limonium Piña Colada 70cm (10st) $2.60
    13QBx13 bunches Limonium Piña Colada 80cm (10st) $2.80
    8EBx10 bunches Limonium Oshi Pink BQT 60cm (20st) $3.50

    I need to extract in columns the following:
    Column 1
    53
    13
    8
    Column 2
    QB
    QB
    EB
    Column 3
    13
    13
    10
    Column 4
    Limonium Piña Colada
    Limonium Piña Colada
    Limonium Piña Colada
    Column 5
    70
    80
    60
    Column 6
    $2.60
    $2.80
    $3.50

    Is this possible?

    Thanks!

  39. Hi Alexander! I just wanted to thank you so very much for your time and effort in assisting me.

    In case you were curious, I was able to extract and add the numbers that I wanted by using this VBA code along with "SUMNUMS":

    Function SumNums(pWorkRng As Range, Optional xDelim As String = " ") As Double
    Dim arr As Variant
    Dim xIndex As Long
    arr = Split(pWorkRng, xDelim)
    For xIndex = LBound(arr) To UBound(arr) Step 1
    SumNums = SumNums + VBA.Val(arr(xIndex))
    Next
    End Function

    Thanks again, you are amazing!

  40. Good day! I am trying to extract and add the number of pages in each line of the following example:

    (1 x Stapled): 1 x Ldgr/C
    (1 x Stapled): 4 x Ltr/D
    (1 x Stapled): 17 x Ldgr/C
    (1 x Stapled): 26 x Ldgr/C/D; 1 x Ldgr/C
    (1 x Stapled): 16 x Ldgr/C/D; 1 x Ldgr/C
    (2 x Stapled): 32 x Ldgr/C/D; 2 x Ldgr/C
    (1 x Stapled): 9 x Ltr/D; 7 x Ltr/C/D; 1 x Ltr
    (1 x Stapled): 1 x Ltr/C

    Might you be able to assist with a formula? Much appreciated!

    1. Hi!
      Sorry, it's not quite clear what you are trying to achieve.
      What does the “(1 x Stapled): 1 x Ldgr/C” phrase mean?
      Describe in detail what problem you have, and I will try to help you.

      1. Hi Alexander! Thanks so much for the quick reply. This is data from our photocopier usage. Each line is a print job; the first number is how many staples were used, followed by how many pieces of paper, letter (ltr) or ledger (ldgr))size. I'm trying to extract the number of pages printed for each line and add them together.

        I hope that helps! Please let me know if you need further details.

        1. Hi!
          Based on your description, it is hard to completely understand your task. However, I’ll try to guess and offer you the following formula:

          =--MID(A1,SEARCH(":",A1,1)+1,SEARCH("x",A1,SEARCH(":",A1,1))-SEARCH(":",A1,1)-1)

          You can also use Split Text tool with mask
          *:*x*
          It is available as a part of our Ultimate Suite for Excel that you can install in a trial mode and check how it works for free: https://www.ablebits.com/files/get.php?addin=xl-suite&f=free-trial

          1. Thanks so much! This is sooo close to what I'm looking for. :) I'm sorry I'm not explaining it very well...

            If you look at this line:

            (1 x Stapled): 1 x Ltr/C/D; 7 x Ltr/D; 1 x Ltr

            The result I'm looking for is "9".

            I hope that makes it more clear! You are certainly a wizard. Thank you so very much for your time and assistance!

            1. Hello!
              In the text
              (1 x Stapled): 1 x Ltr/C/D; 7 x Ltr/D; 1 x Ltr
              there are numbers 1 1 7 1
              Which ones do you sum to get 9?

              1. Hi! The first number is the number of staples, so I do not want to add that one; just the three following numbers which are number of pages used. :)

                Hope that helps! Thanks so much!

              2. Hello!
                If I got you right, the formula below will help you with your task:

                =SUM((IF(ISNUMBER(--MID(MID(A1,14,100),ROW($1:$100),1)),--MID(MID(A1,14,100),ROW($1:$100),1),"")))

                I hope my advice will help you solve your task.

  41. Hi, how to extract numbers in middle of Unicode strings, example "2 – 이 (i)"? Thanks Ahead!

  42. 5KM (1) Back to Basics
    >21KM Sky's the Limit

    Hi, I'm amazed by Sir Alexander's superb excel skills. I'm just trying out my luck here hopefully sir can solve my problem. I would like to extract only the number '5' and '21'. I wonder it is possible. Thank you.

    1. Hello!
      Press CTRL + H. In the "Find what" field, write (*). Do not write anything in the "Replace with" field. Click "Replace".
      Then use the formula from this article and comments. For example:

      =TEXTJOIN("",TRUE,IFERROR(MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))),1)*1,""))

      I hope I answered your question.

  43. Hi,

    I have a spreadsheet of thousands in the following format
    1. zvsnsnshs 2020DDE542134
    2. sgenemene2020SHB6721
    3. reenmennee 2020RTY409

    I want to extract 2020DDE542134 in 1, 2020SHB6721 in 2 and 2020RTY409 in 3

    2020 is followed by three letters but the number of digits thereafter vary.

    Please assist.

    1. Hello!
      The formula below will do the trick for you:

      =MID(A1,SEARCH("2020",A1,1),100)

      I hope it’ll be helpful.

  44. I use this to get numbers only from mixed Alpha Numeric strings
    TEXTJOIN(“”,TRUE,IFERROR(MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT(“1:”&LEN(A2))),1)*1,””))

  45. Amazing formula and explanation. Thank you very much!

  46. Hello,
    How can i remove last numeric digit from a text numeric string e.g.

    abc, adi, 23 fhve sihf ghr 98000

  47. Thank you for this amazing formula!

    =SUMPRODUCT(MID(0&A2, LARGE(INDEX(ISNUMBER(--MID(A2, ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))), 1)) * ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))), 0), ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))))+1, 1) * 10^ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2)))/10)

    It works almost perfectly, however I would like to separate the different number sets with a space.
    e.g.
    returned value with formula: 5468751013
    desired return value: 546875 1 0 13 (number sets vary)

    Regards
    Donald

    1. Hello!
      If you want to extract groups of numbers from the text and separate them with a space, use this formula:

      =SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(CONCAT(IF(ISNUMBER(--MID(A2,ROW($1:$94),1)),MID(A2,ROW($1:$94),1)," ")))," "," ")

      Hope this is what you need.

      1. Wow! That worked perfectly!

        Greatly appreciate this support!

  48. I find this thread quite amazing.

    What I offer below may be a solution to a one-off problem as no-one else describes anything similar. But perhaps I am not the only one so here goes.

    When I scraped a table from the following site:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migration_rate

    - I found columns of numbers displayed in Excel as either regular positive numbers, aligned right, or negative numbers as text, aligned left. I tried all the techniques recommended for converting text to number but nothing worked. So in frustration I converted them all manually, hardly a practical solution for a large database.

    Then it dawned on me that it must be the actual "-" character which was causing the problem. I discovered there are online Unicode character identifiers, one of which I used to identify how these negative characters were different. The "-" for a regular negative number identified as "U+002D : HYPHEN-MINUS {hyphen or minus sign}". The problem character identified as "U+2212 : MINUS SIGN". When I used Ctrl-H, find and replace-all in Excel, all the negative text numbers instantly converted to regular numbers, aligned right, no further action needed.

  49. BR_GID/908764_JK2

    what is the formula to get only 908764 number .

    1. Hi,
      Please check the formula below, it should work for you:

      =LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(CONCAT(IF(ISNUMBER(--MID(A1,ROW($1:$94),1)), MID(A1,ROW($1:$94),1)," ")))," ","-"), SEARCH("-",SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(CONCAT(IF(ISNUMBER(--MID(A1,ROW($1:$94),1)), MID(A1,ROW($1:$94),1)," ")))," ","-"),1)-1)

      I hope it’ll be helpful.

  50. Hi,

    I have a spreadsheet of a couple of thousand lot plans in the format of
    103SP122202
    10SP133260
    1RP43701
    They are always numbers followed by letters followed by numbers.
    I am looking for a formula to return all the numbers before the first letter and place in a column
    103
    10
    1
    Then a formula to return all the letters, and the numbers after the letters to place in another column
    SP122202
    SP133260
    1RP43701
    how would i achieve this?

    1. Hello!
      Write your value in cell A1. To extract the text, write the formula in B1.

      =SUBSTITUTE((CONCAT(IF(NOT(ISNUMBER(--MID(A1,ROW($1:$94),1))), MID(A1,ROW($1:$94),1),"")))," ","")

      To extract the first number, write the formula in C1.

      =LEFT(A1,SEARCH(B1,A1,1)-1)

      To extract the second number, write the formula in D1.

      =RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-SEARCH(B1,A1,1)-1)

      I hope I answered your question. If something is still unclear, please feel free to ask.

      1. Hi Alexander,

        Thank you very much for replying with a solution, it works very well.

        Is it possible to alter =RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-SEARCH(B1,A1,1)-1) to keep SP122202 together in a cell and not separated?

        Regards
        Andrew

        1. Hi,
          Please try the following formula:

          =B1&RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-SEARCH(B1,A1,1)-1)

          or

          =RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-SEARCH(B1,A1,1)+1)

          1. Hi,
            The second formula worked perfectly,
            Thank you very much.

            Regards
            Andrew

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