Remove Letters from Strings, Numbers, and Cells in Excel

This comprehensive book will cover a variety of techniques for effectively extracting numerical values from mixed data, including cells with a mix of letters and digits, alphanumeric combinations, and strings with embedded numbers. Excel offers a variety of methods to complete this operation quickly and effectively thanks to its robust functions and formulae.

Learning these strategies will unquestionably improve your data manipulation abilities and help you save time while working with datasets, whether you are a novice or a seasoned Excel user. In various situations, including data cleaning, text processing, and preparing data for additional analysis, removing letters from mixed data is a frequent requirement.

Remove Letters From Strings/Numbers/Cells

Here we will first create a user-defined formula using VBA and then use the formula to complete the task. So let us see a simple process to know how you can remove letters from strings, numbers, or cells in Excel.

Step 1

Consider an Excel sheet where the data is similar to the below image.

First, right-click on the sheet name and select View code to open the VBA application.

Right-click > View Code.

Step 2

Then click on Insert and select Module, then copy the below code into the text box.

Insert > Module > Copy.

Code

Function StripChar(Txt As String) As String
With CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
.Global = True
.Pattern = "\D"
StripChar = .Replace(Txt, "")
End With
End Function

Step 3

Then close VBA using Alt + Q. Then click on an empty cell and enter the formula as =StripChar(A2) and click enter. Then drag down using the autofill handle.

Alt + Q > Empty Cell > Formula > Enter > Drag.

This is how you can remove letters from strings in Excel.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have used a simple example to demonstrate how you can remove letters from strings, numbers, or cells in Excel to highlight a particular set of data.