If you want a macro................

Sub Add_Text_Left()
Dim Cell As Range
Dim moretext As String
Dim thisrng As Range
On Error GoTo endit
Set thisrng = Range(ActiveCell.Address & "," & Selection.Address) _
.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants, xlTextValues)
moretext = InputBox("Enter your Text")
For Each Cell In thisrng
Cell.Value = moretext & Cell.Value
Next
Exit Sub
endit:
MsgBox "only formulas in range"
End Sub


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 06:30:02 -0700, Rahul Srivastava <Rahul
wrote:

Hi i have an excel spread sheet of around 200 rows, in one of its column i
want to update a word as a prefix to text in all the rows.

Is there any ways (shortcut) i can update the prefix by some formulas or
logical function?