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Defined number of characters
I have a spreadsheet that has numerical values in cells of different lengths,
ie xxx, xxxxxx, etc. I need to make all the values 6 characters long by adding or removing zeros at the beginning and therefore not altering the value. I then want it to appear as text rather than number. Can anyone help |
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Defined number of characters
If your value was in A1:
=TEXT(A1,"000000") -- Regards, Dave "Carrie" wrote: I have a spreadsheet that has numerical values in cells of different lengths, ie xxx, xxxxxx, etc. I need to make all the values 6 characters long by adding or removing zeros at the beginning and therefore not altering the value. I then want it to appear as text rather than number. Can anyone help |
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Try someting like:
=IF(LEN(A1)<=6,TEXT(A1,"000000"),TEXT(RIGHT(A1,6), "000000")) HTH JG "Carrie" wrote: I have a spreadsheet that has numerical values in cells of different lengths, ie xxx, xxxxxx, etc. I need to make all the values 6 characters long by adding or removing zeros at the beginning and therefore not altering the value. I then want it to appear as text rather than number. Can anyone help |
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One way:
=REPT(0,6-LEN(A1)) & A1 HTH, Paul "Carrie" wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet that has numerical values in cells of different lengths, ie xxx, xxxxxx, etc. I need to make all the values 6 characters long by adding or removing zeros at the beginning and therefore not altering the value. I then want it to appear as text rather than number. Can anyone help |
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