Deleting Certain Characters Until The 1st Letter Of Every Row

Apr 8, 2014

Let's say I have these 4 rows

1231-123 Lady Gaga - Applause
3123 123 -- Marvin Gaye - SEduction
1-20389@---12 Beyonce - Crazy in Love
-123 -- Andrea Bocelli - whatever

Is there any way to make Excel delete every character that is not found withing the alphabet until it find the first letter and STOP there ?

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