Hi Tammy

if you only need to change the way they look (ie you're not exporting them
or using them in a function or anything) then this can be achieved by a
custom format
select the cells, choose format / cells, under the number tab choose custom
you should see the word General in the white line on the right change it to
read
"**"@


Cheers
JulieD

"Tammy Singer" <Tammy wrote in message
...
Is there a way to insert a standard character before each cell of a
predetermined column?

For example, the info in the field says C01. I need for it to say **C01.
It would take me hours to manually put a ** in one thousand records in the
column.

Any help would be great!
Thans.