SOMEONE HELP, please please?

[Guest]

first off thanks you guys for taking the time to help. i have got alot of
info from the forums. ok here is my latest adventure! i am trying to create a
list of phone numbers for my boss. he asked me to pull out every phone number
on his phone bills and make a list using excel. now his bills are in PDF
formatt and i have purchased a PDF to excel converter and it works great, my
issue is once im in excel i want to extract or copy all the phone numbers, is
that possible? so far ive just been able to delete alot of unwanted text and
contect that carries over from the PDF and narrow it down to only 2 colums (A
and B) but there is still a few things i dont need like text that reads
"incomig" ect and ive been deleting row by row and sometimes there are 1200+
rows and thats just taking way to much time. im thinking there has to be a
way that once i have all the data in excel i can just copy all the phone
numbers in the doc? im using office pro 03, can someone help this girl out?
thanks

 

[Bob Phillips]

Does this do it

Sub FormatData()
Dim iLastRow As Long
Dim i As Long

iLastRow = Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row
For i = iLastRow To 1 Step -1
If Not IsNumeric(Cells(i, "A").Value) Then
Rows(i).Delete
End If
Next i

End Sub

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HTH

RP
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[Guest]

bob i have no idea what that even means. sorry im not to excel savoy. please
be patient with me, are those commands or values that i type somewhere like a
command? where would i use what you told me to use?
thank you very much too!
-TINA

 

[Guest]

Try to use Bob's text with Tools>Macro>Visual Basic Editor

 

[Guest]

thank you MaR i will try that now.

Try to use Bob's text with Tools>Macro>Visual Basic Editor

 

[Ragdyer]

Check out this web page of David McRitchie.
It should give you an introduction into being able to utilize Bob's code.

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm

 

[Guest]

ok i checked that out and im getting a little better by the minute thanks. so
far im doing alot less cut, paste and delete and it seems to work alot better
just by using the sort data feature. it still seems there might be a tad
faster way so im going to try and use this code. i just dont know alot if the
lingo they use can someone maybe tell me exactly where to imput his code?
thank you so much guys!

 

[Guest]

ok i started to follow the instructions about macros and it said something
about everything i do from now on with follow this macro using excel. um dont
know about that one. so there is no basic sort, filter or edit feature i can
use in excel that will delete everything except the phone numbers?

 

[Fred Smith]

There certainly is a filter feature. It's Data>Filter>AutoFilter. You'll
need a header row for it to operate on. Click on the down arrow of the
column you want to filter and try a custom filter of 'is greater than or
equal to' 'A'. This will filter out everything starting with a number, and
display everything starting with letters. Now delete all the rows on the
screen. Excel will delete only the rows being displayed. Go back to your
filter, turn it off, and you will have left only those cells which start
with a number (which is hopefully your phone numbers).

 

[Bob Phillips]

In Excel

Goto the VB IDE (Alt-F11)
Menu Insert>Module
Paste the code into the code window that pops up
Go back to Excel

Goto menu Tools>Macro>Macros...
From the list select FormatData
Hit the Run button

Check your results

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HTH

RP
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