Rose Men pretended :
On Feb 18, 1:44*pm, "mp" wrote:
"Rose Men" wrote in message
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Hi ,
I have a record character variable which has less than 9 length,
I need converted to a 9 character text field with leading 0 s.
how can i coded in MACRO so that I can automaticly transfer them to 9
length next time when I get more data to excel.
Thank you very much.
Rose
check out Format function
format(1,"00000000#")
format(12,"00000000#")
format(123,"00000000#")
format(1234,"00000000#")
etc
hth
mark
Can i write a code in a sub function using VBA to do it automaticaly?
thanks,
Rose
Nothing you write in VBA will work as well, fast, or efficient as
Excel's built-in features.
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