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In a column I have cells where the first character is numeric and the rest text and also cells where the first character is text.

I want to delete the rows where the first character is text.

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I am trying to read a text file into a variable with VBA. The files I try to read usually have a bunch of unrecognized characters in them and I can't seem to read through them. I am looking for some code that will delete all unrecognized characters until it finds a string I specify.

Example of file

ΚW   
 ¾J Y D Y ³F Y ZE Y ¨B Z ˜6 Z
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Sub findvalues()

Dim strText As String

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I have tried to use - 'Format only cells that contain' > Specific Text > Containing > for each of the characters and this does not work.

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