Thanks Bob and Joel, the REPT worked a treat.

Regards, Rob

"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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=VLOOKUP(REPT("0",6-LEN(A1))&A1,L1:P9,2,FALSE)

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HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my
addy)



"Rob" wrote in message
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Hi,

Using Excel 2000

I have spreadsheet that uses text entries to do a Vlookup, the look up
range has text in the format of 6 characters albeit they look like
numbers with leading zeros eg. '000100. The entry that I enter if
'000100 returns the correct result. However, when others enter they tend
to just enter '100 which doesn't match. I therefore thought that if I
could check the length of their entry, I could fill with leading zeros to
make it 6 characters long.

Having tried to do this with validation, I'm now thinking this is a
change cell piece of code.

Any pointers of sample code would be appreciated.

Thank you, Rob