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How can i specify a cell to have a fixed number of characters
I need to concatenate text from 4 cells so that in the final string the text
from each cell is padded up to a length of 40 characters. any ideas? -- john |
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How can i specify a cell to have a fixed number of characters
=left(a1&rept(" ",40),40)&left(b1&rept(" ",40),40) & .....
If you have numbers/dates, you may want: =right(rept(" ",40)&text(a1,"mm/dd/yyyy"),40) & ..... john dunford wrote: I need to concatenate text from 4 cells so that in the final string the text from each cell is padded up to a length of 40 characters. any ideas? -- john -- Dave Peterson |
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