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Default Concatencation and formatting

Can you please try the below in a fresh worksheet.

A1 = 12345
B1 = TEXT(A1,"### ##")
C1 = "Cross road"
D1 = B1 & C1



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Jacob Skaria


"Bengt" wrote:

I am trying to concatenate two cells. One of the cells is formatted using the
"Special" option on Format Cells. The formatting I have been using is the one
for postal codes, and for Swedish use, the postal code is normally formatted
as
123 45, i.e. three digits, a space and then two digits.

The formatting applied on the cell when it is by itself works fine. When I
concatenate the postal code with something else, the formatting doesn't work
anymore. I suspect that I could use the TEXT-function, and give a formatting
instruction as the second argument, something like this:
=A1&Text(B1;"format code")

but I couldn't find what format code to use.

Anyone knows?