RWN,
Looks like your solution will solve my problem on replacing "0" for blanks
on the text cells.
Thank you for your help.
I really find this forum most useful as the participants are not only
knowledgeable but extremely helpful.
I will be tuning to this forum to hone my skills to better optimise the
useage of MS Excel.
Cheers
Michael
"RWN" wrote:
Michael;
Try this;
(assume Prod Descript is in A2,Part # is in B2 and Quant is in C2)
In helper cells
Product Descr not sure if the two inst. can be combined so will use two helper cells D2 &
E2
D2 =right(" "&A2,16)
E2 =substitute(D2," ","0")
Part #
F2 =right("000000"&B2,6)
Quant
G2 =right("000"&C2,3)
To combine Prod Desc, Prod # and Quant
=E2&F2&G2
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Regards;
Rob
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"Michael" wrote in message
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Jeffro,
Thanks for your suggestion.
Probably I was not very clear on my intent.
I want to avoid having to manually input "0" for blank spaces and am looking
for a way for Excel to replace this automatically or via some function
changes etc.
ie the inputs coming from third parties come in as text
eg Product="Sample product" part no="123" qty="2"
I need to translate this to
Product= text length 16
part no= text length 6
qty=text length 3
The translated text I am looking for is"Sample0product00000123002"
Hope that this clarifies on my problem/challenge
"Jeffro" wrote:
Michael,
Click on the cell that you want to include the zero's in the word. Right
click and go down to format cells. Go to the "number" tab and there will be
a box on the left side. Select Text then click "OK". You should be able to
type zero's in front of your text from that point.
Jeff
"Michael" wrote:
Need some Help.
Trying to include leading zeros into my inputs.
eg "1234" to display "0001234" and "Sample product" to display
"00Sample0product"
I was able to do this for the numbers but was not able to display
preceeding 00 and inserting 0 for blank space
Further more when I combine the different cells via "CONCATENATE" function I
found the preceeding zeros disappearing.
Can someone please help?
Thanks
Michael
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