Hi all.

I'm a novice Excel'er here, but I came across something that I've not been able to google my way out, so I figured I'd post for some help.

I have a spreadsheet which is an extract from another application's DB, and it's just ugly in Excel. No nice neat columns etc. Data from some tables of the other application were just dumped into cells. Some of the data I need is scattered about the worksheet in various cells. There are no seperators that are common, no common length of text strings I could use to pull every X word etc.

The one common thread I am working with here, is the the data I need to extract ALL begins with the first 4 letters, and containers a total of 8 characters. For example:

A3 - The dogs collar had the name ABCD1234 on it
J9 - Today I found a dog collar at the store, and it read ABCD2345
c5 - It says ABCD3456

I'm trying to basically see if there is a way/function within excel that can go through all of the cells and extract anything that says ABCD???? (and the 4 wildcards after it)

The Find all function finds them all, but trying to just extract the data ABCD??? info.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance for the help!