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I need a formula that will increase an alpha character by one. ex. Column
heading is Revision and the column contains A. I want to add a column with a
formula that will result B. similar to =(A2+1) for numberic.
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If A2 contains: A,
then this in say B2: =CHAR(CODE(A2)+1)
will return the next letter: B

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I need a formula that will increase an alpha character by one. ex. Column
heading is Revision and the column contains A. I want to add a column with a
formula that will result B. similar to =(A2+1) for numberic.

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