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Default Alphanumeric limitation

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:52:00 -0700, Dan wrote:

Looking for help to validate a single cell to an alphanumeric entry that is
exacly 6 characters in length with the first character required to be a
letter and the remaining characters to be numbers. Exp: A00142 orT10001, ect.


=AND(LEN(A1)=6,CODE(A1)=65,CODE(A1)<=90,ISNUMBER(-MID(A1,{2,3,4,5,6},1)))

if the first letter must be capitalized.

If it can be upper or lower case, then:

=AND(LEN(A1)=6,OR(AND(CODE(A1)=65,CODE(A1)<=90),A ND(CODE(A1)=97,CODE(A1)<=122)),
ISNUMBER(-MID(A1,{2,3,4,5,6},1)))
--ron