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Extract numbers from cell of mixed text string with function in Excel. Supposing there are cells mixed with text strings and numbers, and you need to extract numbers form the cells. 1. Select a blank cell besides original cells, for example Cell B1, and click Kutools > Kutools Functions > Text > EXTRACTNUMBERS. 2. In the throwing out Function Arguments dialog box, you need to: (1) In the Txt box, click the button to specify the cell from which you want to extract numbers.
So what I need to do is extract the number, then do the math, then put things back together again. Let's do that step by step. First, I'll use the RIGHT function to extract the 3 characters from the right. This gives us the number. You can see by the left alignment that the number is still in text format. However, now I can add the value from column C. This time it works, because Excel is able to convert the text to a number automatically as part of the math operation. We get a correct result of 2, but we loose the padding with zeros. So let's add the padding back using the TEXT function, which will let us apply a number format inside a formula.