copy/paste column with in between rows left untouched

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Hi All,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
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Just wanted to inquire, I’m currently converting a whole column of alpha numeric data into just numeric, eg. AB1234 to 1234, I used the Right(A1, 4) function to remove all the letters in that particular column and plan to copy/paste these to overwrite that column since I don’t need the alpha’s. My question is, thou I’m using the function to remove the letters, there are some rows that has different formats that I need to leave just as it is, so when I’ll do the copy paste values on the column that I need to replace, I wanted some of these rows that I don’t need to change to be untouched (with blank cells on rows that will replace), to reiterate my question, here’s the scenario:<o:p></o:p>
A B<o:p></o:p>
AB1234 1234<o:p></o:p>
BC5678 5678 <o:p></o:p>
910111 (blank) <o:p></o:p>
DE1213 1213<o:p></o:p>
I do not like to overlap the 3<SUP>rd</SUP> row (910111) but as copy paste the whole column B to A, this will inadvertently be included, I tried the filtering of rows but I find it really manual as it is only not the unique rows that I wanted to leave as is, is there a function that will leave this untouched?<o:p></o:p>
<o:p>thanks! </o:p>
 

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=IF(ISNUMBER(--A1), A1, RIGHT(A1,4))
 
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HI SHg,

but how can I transfer that to column A without changing the rows that I do not want to be pasted, I'm assuming to copy/paste col. B to A here....
 
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Just copy the column and paste over the original as values.
 
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