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dalymjl dalymjl is offline
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Originally Posted by dan dungan View Post
try placing the following formula in the "formula" section of the data
validation dialog box.

=AND(LEN(A1)=8,NOT(ISNUMBER(VALUE(RIGHT(A1,1)))))
Many thanks for you help. There is still a slight problem as that validation would permit a letter or other character in the first 7 digits and I only want numbers in the first 7 places.

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MJD