Need help filtering an excel sheet for determined conditions - excel

Question

Hi I'm having an issue with filtering an excel sheet. Basically I'm extracting a very long pdf to excel.
From the data exported I'm only interested in some codes that come in the form of SM12345 (SM and five numbers).
I was able to create a formula in excel to check for 3 conditions I defined to filter the data but it only check on a single cell value(I can't seem to find how to refer to the whole sheet as range, as in the search function).
My idea is to use advance filtering and use my 3 conditions as criteria but I don't know how to refer to the whole sheet in excel, so then I record a macro and copy those in a separate column.
My conditions are:
1- Contains "SM"
2- The length is 7 (though I think I could use wild characters after SM, not sure)
3- The string contains numbers
This is the excel formula I have for a single cell:
=IF(AND(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("sm",A9)),LEN(A9)=7,COUNT(FIND({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A9))>0),A9,"")

Answer 1

First find all SM* and select them all with ctrl+a in the find box as shown in the image. After closing the find box all the cells will remain selected and then you can run the following macro. Then you can do anything with those cells looping myRng.
Sub SlectCond()
Dim myRng As Range
For Each cell In Selection
If HasNumber(cell.Value) And Len(cell) >= 7 Then
If myRng Is Nothing Then
Set myRng = cell
Else
Set myRng = Union(myRng, cell)
End If
End If
Next
For Each cell In myRng
cell.Interior.ColorIndex = 6
Next
End Sub
Function HasNumber(strData As String) As Boolean
Dim iCnt As Integer
For iCnt = 1 To Len(strData)
If IsNumeric(Mid(strData, iCnt, 1)) Then
HasNumber = True
Exit Function
End If
Next iCnt
End Function
Or if you want to execute all through a macro........
Sub SlectCond()
Range(Range("A1"), Range("A1").SpecialCells(xlLastCell)).Select
Selection.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants, 23).Select
Dim myString, myStringArr
myString = ""
Dim myRng As Range
For Each cell In Selection
If HasNumber(cell.Value) And InStr(1, cell.Value, "SM") And Len(cell) >= 7 Then
If myRng Is Nothing Then
Set myRng = cell
myString = cell.Value
Else
Set myRng = Union(myRng, cell)
myString = myString & "," & cell.Value
End If
End If
Next
For Each cell In myRng
cell.Interior.ColorIndex = 6
Next
myStringArr = Split(myString, ",")
Worksheets.Add
For i = 0 To UBound(myStringArr)
Range("A" & i + 1) = myStringArr(i)
Next
End Sub
Function HasNumber(strData As String) As Boolean
Dim iCnt As Integer
For iCnt = 1 To Len(strData)
If IsNumeric(Mid(strData, iCnt, 1)) Then
HasNumber = True
Exit Function
End If
Next iCnt
End Function