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How to remove non numeric characters from cells in Excel?

Supposing you have a worksheet with lots of such data ABCD4578124YUIOH, and you only want to remove the non-numeric characters  ABCDYUIOH but keep the numeric characters in cells. Of course, you can remove those characters one by one, but right here you can get rid of the non-numeric characters from cells quickly as follows:

Remove non-numeric characters with VBA code

A handy tool to remove non-numeric characters with one click

Remove non-numeric characters with VBA code

To remove non-numeric characters from a range with VBA code, please do as follow:

1. Click Developer > Visual Basic to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for applications window. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for applications window, click Insert > Module, and then copy and paste the following codes into the module:

VBA: Remove all non-numeric characters

Sub RemoveNotNum()
'Updateby Extendoffice
Dim Rng As Range
Dim WorkRng As Range
On Error Resume Next
xTitleId = "KutoolsforExcel"
Set WorkRng = Application.Selection
Set WorkRng = Application.InputBox("Range", xTitleId, WorkRng.Address, Type:=8)
For Each Rng In WorkRng
    xOut = ""
    For i = 1 To Len(Rng.Value)
        xTemp = Mid(Rng.Value, i, 1)
        If xTemp Like "[0-9]" Then
            xStr = xTemp
        Else
            xStr = ""
        End If
        xOut = xOut & xStr
    Next i
    Rng.Value = xOut
Next
End Sub

2. Then click the button to run the code, In the popping up KutoolsforExcel dialog box, select a range with the non-numeric characters you want to remove, and then click the OK button. See screenshot:

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3. Then all non-numeric characters in selected range are removed.

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If the numbers with decimal points, you can use the following VBA:

Sub RemoveNotNum()
'Updateby Extendoffice
Dim Rng As Range
Dim WorkRng As Range
On Error Resume Next
xTitleId = "KutoolsforExcel"
Set WorkRng = Application.Selection
Set WorkRng = Application.InputBox("Range", xTitleId, WorkRng.Address, Type:=8)
For Each Rng In WorkRng
    xOut = ""
    For i = 1 To Len(Rng.Value)
        xTemp = Mid(Rng.Value, i, 1)
        If xTemp Like "[0-9.]" Then
            xStr = xTemp
        Else
            xStr = ""
        End If
        xOut = xOut & xStr
    Next i
    Rng.Value = xOut
Next
End Sub

You can see the results as below screenshot shown:

doc remove non numeric characters 3

A handy tool to remove non-numeric characters with one click

For removing non-numeric characters in a range, Kutools for Excel’s Remove Characters utility can get it done with one click.

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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:

1. Highlight the range you want to remove non-numeric characters. Click Kutools > Text > Remove Characters.

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2. In the Remove Characters dialog box, check the Non-numeric option in the Remove Characters section, and then click the OK or Apply button. And the non-numeric characters are removed from the selection immediately. See screenshot:

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JW
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sample code for comments
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thankyou worked well
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Bryan Steven
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wouldn't be better to replace the input-box method by just setting WorkRng like this: Set WorkRng = Intersect(ActiveSheet.UsedRange, Selection) that way if user select a entire column it wouldn't generate any error.
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Julie Hodnett
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Awesome Worked GREAT!!!!!!!!
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Daniel
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Wow. that worked , exactly what I needed. Thanks,
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amanda
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I received an error when I hit the > run button in the developer: Compile Error: Expected:end of statement and the word "non" in non-numeric is highlighted
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Easter2015
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Use this Formaula for replacing the existing character with the new one =SUBSTITUTE(text,old_text,new_text,[instance_num]) for ex-=SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(G1),"/","") Wish U all Happy Easter 2015
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Roger
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Thanx Guys for such a nice work. The script is awesome and it worked for. Keep it up guys.
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Cole
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Just wanted to let you know that if the string starts with zero(s), or starts with letters, followed by zero(s), followed by the rest of the string this will remove all of the beginning zeroes. This is weird because it doesn't remove the zero(s) if they are between other non-zero numbers within the string, only if they start the string or are the first numbers after the initial letters in a string. Example. 0060100 would come out as 60100 PFF057726 would come out as 57726. Let me know if you have an explanation for this and can think of a solution. Thank you.
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Naresh kumar
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Send me it on my email id
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samola
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Hi, I want to use this macro but want to pre-define a range. Can you please let me know how to pre-define the range. Thanks, Samit
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The VBA works great. I modified it to always work on a column, as shown:

For Each Cell In Range("B2:B" & ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count)

xOut = ""

For i = 1 To Len(Cell.Value)

xTemp = Mid(Cell.Value, i, 1)

If xTemp Like "[0-9]" Then

xStr = xTemp

Else

xStr = ""

End If

xOut = xOut & xStr

Next i

Cell.Value = xOut

Next

I also used this to sort a column by the last digit, changing the last part to Cell.Value = Right(xOut, 1) then sorting it numerically.
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Abi DC
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HI Thanks for the coding, i am getting the syntax error highlighted on For i = 1 To Len(Rng.Value) and the debug Sub RemoveNotNum() is highlighted in yellow.. kindly advice.
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