use formatting from source cell in CONCATENATE function
 

I created a special format so that leading 0's in a value are printed.
However when using the CONCATENATE function of excel, the formatting is
ignored and the leading 0's are dropped. It would be valuable (to me) if the
formatting of a cell (number of decimal places, leading zeros, etc was
"honored" by the CONCATENATE function.

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use formatting from source cell in CONCATENATE function
 

Let's say
A1 = 001 (custom format)
B1 = cat

Formula C1 =CONCATENATE(TEXT(A1,"000"),B1) The result will be 001cat


"zacarab" wrote:

I created a special format so that leading 0's in a value are printed.
However when using the CONCATENATE function of excel, the formatting is
ignored and the leading 0's are dropped. It would be valuable (to me) if the
formatting of a cell (number of decimal places, leading zeros, etc was
"honored" by the CONCATENATE function.

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use formatting from source cell in CONCATENATE function
 

Thank you (sorry to all about the duplicate post)

"Teethless mama" wrote:

Let's say
A1 = 001 (custom format)
B1 = cat

Formula C1 =CONCATENATE(TEXT(A1,"000"),B1) The result will be 001cat


"zacarab" wrote:

I created a special format so that leading 0's in a value are printed.
However when using the CONCATENATE function of excel, the formatting is
ignored and the leading 0's are dropped. It would be valuable (to me) if the
formatting of a cell (number of decimal places, leading zeros, etc was
"honored" by the CONCATENATE function.

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