Remove Numbers from Cell with Text

borski88

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I know this question gets asked a lot, but I haven't seen any answers that match the issue I am having.

I have a string of characters that has numbers and letters in locations.
The location of the letters within the string is not in a consistent location I need to extract only the letter.

Here is an example:

0D10
3A92
0B90
F100
D173
B111
5E61
6A90
E262
B311

<colgroup><col style="width:48pt" width="64"> </colgroup><tbody>
</tbody>

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 

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I have a string of characters that has numbers and letters in locations.
The location of the letters within the string is not in a consistent location I need to extract only the letter.

Here is an example:
0D10
3A92
0B90
F100
D173
B111
5E61
6A90
E262
B311

<colgroup><col style="width:48pt" width="64"> </colgroup><tbody>
</tbody>
Your question is not clear... when you say "extract", do you mean from the cell directly so that the remaining letter appear in the original cell, or do you mean you want to put the extracted letters in the cell next to the original cell?
 
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You could use this formula...

=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,0,""),1,""),2,""),3,""),4,""),5,""),6,""),7,""),8,""),9,"")
 
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If the given sample is representative (1 letter , 3 digits), you can give this a try too:

=MID(A1,MATCH(TRUE,MID(A1,{1,2,3,4},1)>="A",0),1)
 
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