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Old 06-05-2013, 09:59 AM
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Hi everyone,



I have a whole bunch of cells which contain names, addresses and phone numbers. Each row is varying length and I'm trying to just extract the phone number.

The phone numbers are in this format: (xxx)xxx-xxxx so there are no spaces.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Old 06-05-2013, 11:55 AM
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If still brackets in the text aren't present also number always from 13 signs, it is possible so:
Code:
=mid(a1,find("(",a1),13)
Otherwise - give a file example
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If the only place a left paren is to be found is at the beginning of a 13-byte phone number, then I agree with Serge's solution. I tend to distrust the claim that the input data will always be valid, so I'd be inclined to go with a user-written worksheet function that uses regular expressions. But not everyone will think that level of complication worth the effort.
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