Since I'm new at the VB game I don't know if this is what you're looking for: by George Simms This array formula will extract the phone number as text in the form of 123-45678 from examples as shown below. 234-5678PG Result 234-5678 Array enter the formula and copy it down as far as needed for entries in column A. =3DMID(A1,MATCH(FALSE,ISERROR(1*MID(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:20")),1)),0),21- SUM(1*ISERROR(1*MID(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:20")),1)))) I got this from http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/eee/eee011.txt (Ray sent it to me on another issue) sandy =20 -----Original Message----- From: Glenda Wells [mailto:gwells@xxxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:54 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Word Form IF ? Hi All. I have a field in Excel that can contain either a telephone number or an email address. I want to pull information only if it is a telephone number. I thought I might be able to write a little something like if [field] like "@" then leave null but haven't had much luck. Any help appreciated. /g ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to=20 mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************