Formula? Extract text between 2 characters

boilerup

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I need a formula to help the text below...
Company Name (D-0003504825)

to look like this
0003504825_Company Name

On my excel worksheet, all text inside parentheses include "D" then "-" then 10 numbers.

Thanks!
 

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Note: cant simply do formula that finds characters between "-" and ")" because some cells look like this...
Company-Name (D-0003594819)
 
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=MID(A1,FIND("(",A1)+3,10)&"_"&LEFT(A1,FIND("(",A1)-2)

Need more example data to ensure this works properly
 
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HI
What about this for one cell (can easily amended for range of cells If OP likes it)
Suppose the format is always xxxxx xxxxx (D-xxxxxxxxxx)
Code:
Sub teste()
    e = Split(Split(Join(Split(Split(Join(Split(Range("a1"), "(D-"), Chr(22)), ")")(0), "(D-"), Chr(22)), ")")(0), Chr(22))
    Range("b1") = Trim(e(1)) & "_" & e(0)
End Sub

Or
Code:
Sub Test2()
    With CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
        .Global = True
        .Pattern = "(^\w+.\w+)|(\d+)"
        Set spl = .Execute(Range("a1"))
        Range("b1") = spl(1) & "_" & spl(0)
    End With
End Sub
 
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