Select only the letters from a cell

Hi,

I have a list of values which include letters and numbers:

ADP45
DSVC54
DEPT25 etc....
In the next column I want to only see the letters without the numbers:
ADP
DSVC
DEPT

Is there a function to do this?

Thanks.

Isa.

Here is one way

=SUBSTITUTE(A1,LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,--MID(A1,MIN(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5
,6,7,8,9},A1&"0123456789")),{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15})),"")

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"Isa" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi,
>
> I have a list of values which include letters and numbers:
>
> ADP45
> DSVC54
> DEPT25 etc....
> In the next column I want to only see the letters without the numbers:
> ADP
> DSVC
> DEPT
>
> Is there a function to do this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Isa.

This way works - however I'm confused on one item.

The MID(A1,MIN(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5
,6,7,8,9},A1&"0123456789")),{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15}) function

Searched for the first occurance of a number - got that - I understand that
the '0123456789" adds a number just in case the cell has no number.

However the {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15} is supposed to give the
length of the number (one, two, three, .... positions)? how is that
happening - when I'm trying to pull it apart - I'm only getting 1 for this
field regardless on how big the number is?

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

> Here is one way
>
> =SUBSTITUTE(A1,LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,--MID(A1,MIN(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5
> ,6,7,8,9},A1&"0123456789")),{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15})),"")
>
> --
> HTH
>
> Bob Phillips
>
> (remove nothere from email address if mailing direct)
>
> "Isa" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a list of values which include letters and numbers:
> >
> > ADP45
> > DSVC54
> > DEPT25 etc....
> > In the next column I want to only see the letters without the numbers:
> > ADP
> > DSVC
> > DEPT
> >
> > Is there a function to do this?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Isa.
>
>
>