Hi Lacy,

It looks like the operation you currently run is converting the numbers to
text. Try recording a Macro that performs text to columns on the column in
question (DataText to columns...). In the format section (on step 3 of 3) of
this process, select text.

This will convert the entire column to text though, and without seeing your
data I can have no idea what affect this might have on other processes.

But recording the text to columns process will give you the code you need.

Regards
Dave

"lacy" wrote:

I have a column of sedols (sedols are security identifies) that is about 8000
rows long and will be refreshed with new data every day. Sedols need to be 8
characters long. The problem is, when I drop a sedol into excel that starts
with one or more zeros, excel truncates the zeros which then leaves me with
an invalid sedol. At that point I need to go in and change for example
€œ3128€� to €œ €˜0003128€�. Generally, there about 200 or so of these out of
8000. Was wondering if there was a way to create a macro that would look at
all sedols in the range, check if they are 8 characters, and, if not, add
enough zeros as prefix to get to 8 characters€¦

thanks!