Pull number string from a description box in excel

ayeshamosharraf

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Hello,

I am trying to pull number string from a description text box from a very large volume of data. I have Excel 2016

Examples of cells: (THis is how my description box looks like and I am trying to extract only the bold and underline string out of each cell. all cells have dates and some other measurements data too.

1-Ayesha is trying to solve this excel problem but looks like it is very difficult .345 so we assigned her a ticket number2345345.she has only a day to get the answer.
2-What formula and macro she can use to solve this problem?8.8787 we will be assigning her another task .075-WT-1345549.23 and then will decide if she is capable of doing stuff lol.
3-I will be very thankful if someone can answer this question because I have 3 more task and 4 assignments due this week and one more 3434544.4 what should I do. today is 11/3/2017. 334434
4- some cells are just blank and but the others has some this kind of numbers-3345343
5- it is tricky all, all the numbers I have are 7 to 9 digit numbers and it appears at different place in the text like this here-1232423


Thank you for your help in advance!
 

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