I'd use the arithmetic technique (=a1+20000).

But if you decide to use the text version, you'll want to be careful if any of
your 4 digit numbers are less than a 1000:

="2"&text(a1,"0000")
or
=--"2"&text(a1,"0000")

The double minuses change the text back to numbers. (One changes it to a
negative number and the other changes it back to a positive number.)



Nikki wrote:

Hi,

I have a spreadsheet that has one column with a 4 digit number in each line.
I would like to copy the digits in this column to a new column and then add
a 2 infront of each 4 digits.

For example.

Column 1
8456
8764
7875
7864

Column 2
28456
28764
27875
27864

I have 500 lines so would like to know if there is a quick way of doing this.

Thanks

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Dave Peterson