On Saturday, 17 April 2010 08:31:02 UTC+12, Gary Brown wrote:
Assuming you want the Last name to be exactly 9 characters...
=CONCATENATE(A1,B1,C1&IF(LEN(C1)<=9,REPT(" ",9-LEN(C1)),""),D1)
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Hope this helps.
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Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Gary Brown



"MWysack" wrote:

Hello,
I am trying to create strings of text by combining cells using CONCATENATE.
I need to have each string of text to be the same length. Below are some
examples of the text strings:

A1= 0000001
B1=123456789
C1= Doe
D1= John

A2=0000002
B2=987654321
C2=Smith
D2=John

In need the lines to look like this:
0000001123456789Doe John
0000002987654321Smith John

This is what they look like when I use CONCATENATE:
0000001123456789DoeJohn
0000002987654321SmithJohn

Is there anyway to get these strings of text to look like this without
manually adding the spaces for each line?

Thanks,
Megan


This solution just worked fantastically for me - thanks