not sure what you mean, how about a specific example.

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Gary


"Dean" wrote in message
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I have a bunch of custom formats that I use that were created by others. They
have many symbols in them hyphens, #, etc, etc.

I also have learned how to have a number displayed with say "total =" in front
of it, but I only know how to do that for simple formats, such as an integer.
I tried modifying one of those custom formats with "total =" and a spacebar in
front of them, similar to how I use "total =" 0, when it is an integer. But
it did not work. So, the question is, if I want to modify an existing custom
format but just want to put some text in front of it, how do I do that?

Thanks!
Dean