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Default Change a 1,2,3 or 4 digit number to a 6 character text string

One way:

="02"&TEXT(A1,"0000")

Copy down as required.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Mar 28, 7:41*pm, Steve D wrote:
Hi, I have a file that has a column with either 1,2,3 or 4 digit numbers. I
need to convert that value to a 4 digit number and add '02 to the front of
it. For example if A1 = 34 I would like B1 to be equal to '020034, if A1 =
134 then B1 should be '020134. Here is the formula I tried to use but it
keeps converting the number into a text string. How can I make this work?

=IF(FIXED(LEFT(A1,4),0)<10,"02000" &
LEFT(A1,1),IF(FIXED(LEFT(A1,4),0)<100,"0200" &
LEFT(A1,2),IF(FIXED(LEFT(A1,4),0)<1000,"020" & LEFT(A1,3),"02" & LEFT(A1,4))))

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Thank You,
Steve


 
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