I want to concatenate three letters and three numbers i.e.

BLA001

But I can't seem to format the cell to produce this. does anyone have
any ideas?

or is there an easier way?

The next number would be BLA002 and so on.


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Where is the BLA coming from? Will that change? If not, you can use
custom cell formatting to create that reference.

Put the number 1 in the cell, then click CTRL-1 to open the Format Cell
box.

Select Number: Custom and in the TYPE: box put this:

BLA000

Those are three zeros at the end. The cell will now display as BLA001.
If you add 1 to it, it will become BLA002. In fact if that were cell A1,
in A2 you could put

=A1+1

....and it would still display as BLA002...as long as all those cells
are using that same custom format.


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Assuming BLA and 1 are in separate cells, then you want:
=a1&text(a2,"000")

Regards,
Fred.

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I want to concatenate three letters and three numbers i.e.

BLA001

But I can't seem to format the cell to produce this. does anyone have
any ideas?

or is there an easier way?

The next number would be BLA002 and so on.


--
Timbo
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