Removing brackets and spaces from numbers from within a cell

jrortiz_2

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I have a spreadsheet with different numbers containing brackets in the following format:
A1 117 (168)
A2 79 (90)

The spreadsheet contains loads of this number.
Is the a way to remove the bracket and extract the specific number that I want and shows the below only:
A1 168
A2 90

Thanks appreciate your help
 

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That's because I thought that the A1 and A2 were part of the number rather than cell references. ;)

This on its own will work fine:

=MID(A1,FIND("(",A1),FIND(")",A1)-FIND("(",A1)+1)
 
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This should work...

As a TEXT Number: =REPLACE(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-1),1,FIND("(",A1),"")

As a REAL Number: =0+REPLACE(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-1),1,FIND("(",A1),"")
 
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