Thank you Darren, worked beautifully!

Eddie

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=IF(D8<"",COUNTA($D$7:D8)+10000,"")

Note: the offending dot is in your original formula - the following bit:
&"."

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Darren
"NYDUDE" wrote in message
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I am trying to format Column "A" to automatically issue numbers
starting from 10001 to infinity. I am using thsis formula:

=IF(D8<"",COUNTA($D$7:D8)&".","")

It is important that the numbers generated in Column "A" based on
the
contents of Column "D", so if there's no entry in "D", Column "A" will
be blank.

The problem I am having is that I can not start with 10001, I can
however start with 1.

Also, Excel is placing a dot after my numbers. I don't like dots!
Please
help.

Eddie


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