associate to each of these words a unique number

Is is in fact possible to calculate a *unique* number? What I am thinking
about is that when I have used the sheet password breaking Macro it returns
another set of letters that fulfill the number calculated by the original
password. As both sets of letters calculate to the same number protecting
the sheet, the number is obviously not unique. If Bill Gates can't return a
unique number from a set of letters.numbers then I am sure that I would fail
to do so as well.

Just a thought.

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"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message
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My question is..............what will you do with the numbers that are
associated with the strings?

Easy enough to return a number to a cell using a formula.

Will you want to use them for calculations?

For a list?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:30:31 -0400, sebkavam
wrote:


Basically, I have words like "movies", "arts", etc... and I want to
associate to each of these words a unique number. These numbers do not
have to be a sequence as long as two different words cannot be
associated with the same number.