filtering out text from numbers

Hi,
I have a long column of data, some cells have numbers in the cells some with text.
I want to get the numbers out. Any ideas on a formula for this?

Thanks

Simon

You can put this in a helper column and copy down

=IF(ISTEXT(A1),A1,"")

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"simonsmith" wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I have a long column of data, some cells have numbers in the cells some
> with text.
> I want to get the numbers out. Any ideas on a formula for this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Simon
>
>
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Thanks,
tried that but some format or somethign is stopping that from differentiating text from the strings of 0001111000 that I want. Have found a long hand way to do it now

Cheers

Simon

It's easy to see why it did not work as desired......0001111000 is not a
number....it is actually a TEXT value just as much as a letter-character
string. If all of the values you want to delete start with a leading zero,
then this formula should help.........

=IF(Left(A1=0,"",A1)

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"simonsmith" <simonsmith.2cai00_1155155799.0494@excelforum-nospam.com> wrote
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> Thanks,
> tried that but some format or somethign is stopping that from
> differentiating text from the strings of 0001111000 that I want. Have
> found a long hand way to do it now
>
> Cheers
>
> Simon
>
>
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It's easy to see why it did not work as desired......0001111000 is not a
number....it is actually a TEXT value just as much as a letter-character
string. If all of the values you want to delete start with a leading zero,
then this formula should help.........

=IF(Left(A1=0,"",A1)

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"simonsmith" <simonsmith.2cai00_1155155799.0494@excelforum-nospam.com> wrote
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>
> Thanks,
> tried that but some format or somethign is stopping that from
> differentiating text from the strings of 0001111000 that I want. Have
> found a long hand way to do it now
>
> Cheers
>
> Simon
>
>
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:07:27 -0400, simonsmith
<simonsmith.2caeai_1155150596.7508@excelforum-nospam.com> wrote:

>
>Hi,
>I have a long column of data, some cells have numbers in the cells some
>with text.
>I want to get the numbers out. Any ideas on a formula for this?
>
>Thanks
>
>Simon

Do you need to retain the leading zero's?

Do you want the string returned as a text string (containing only numbers) or
as a number (would have no leading zero's)?

If you want to return a numeric value, then:

=IF(ISERR(1*A1),"",1*A1)

If you want to return a text string that contains only numbers (would include
leading zero's), then:

=IF(ISERR(1*A1),"",A1)


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