Assuming your numbers are in columnA, put this in B1 and copy down.........

="54-"&A1

This will result in a TEXT number..........like a part number or item
number, but not something you can do math with.
Then you can Copy PasteSpecial Values on column B and delete column A if
you wish.

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"mk" wrote in message
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I have a current set of thousands of numbers and I need to put 54- in
front
of the existing numbers, is there an easy way I can do this instead of
manually going into the cells one by one?