Paul,
OK, there are several things going on here.(and my email is grouping SOME of
them as one conversation, but separating others as if it's a different
discussion)
Some of your statements are confusing.Partially because some terms you're using
have very specific meanings that you may be treating as "generic".
First of all, I think we need to clarify something.Any value with an alpha
character is no longer a number.It's a text "string".
Secondly:If a cell has a value that is numeric, you can DISPLAY the number any
way you wantwithout using a formula.And Excel will still treat the value as a
number.But again: AB10001 is not a number, it's a text string.
third:the Concatenate() function is an old, carry-over function that isn't
technically "required".you can actually use:="AB" & TEXT(A1,"00000")
in both cases, it uses the text() function to format the number as text, and
prefixes it with "AB".
Now, Is formatting these numbers something that you have to repeat?That is:Once
you have the formula that displays it the way you'd like,you can highlight the
cells, select "copy" (ctrl-C)then select "Paste Special->Values" (I usually
right-click to select this)
at that point, the formulas disappear and you are left with the corrected
values.
If this is something you have to re-do with another set of data, then you are
correct:VBA might be of value.
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On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 7:52 PM, Paul Bevins
<paul.bevins...@gmail.com> wrote:
Guess, I could add that I've used:
Concatenate ("0000",A1) to give me all my zeros.Right (A2,5) function, to
reduce the number to just the five digits, or six to give me six digits.Then
I've used Concatenate ("AB",A1) which will give me all of these numbers, EXCEPT
the six digit ones.I can't seem to find a way to add the AB to the five digit
numbers without ALSO adding it to the six digit ones.
Conversely, If I just add the AB to everything, then Left (A2, 6), then all my
AB numbers become just B numbers.Maybe a formula to search for B & add A
automatically?Also, While I can just copy the column and paste values, I'd
PREFER the numbers to already be numbers and not formulas looking like numbers.
(That's not a biggie, but would be nice.)
On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 4:27:58 PM UTC-8, Paul Bevins wrote:
Hi, I've got an odd problem.
I have a database of some 15000 numbers.
10,000 of them (roughly), go from 1 to 10,000.Another 5,000 go from 1,000,000
to 2,000,000.
However, the numbers SHOULD AB00001 to AB10000.
I need to be able to type the root number in and have Excel decide what it
needs:
1 = AB00001 (7 digits)22 = AB00022 (7 digits)333 =
AB00333 (7 digits)4444 =AB04444 (7 digits)15555 = AB15555 (7 digits)
(excusing that this number won't exist above 10,000, but five digits.)100001 =
100001 (6 digits)200002 = 200002 (same length at 6 digits)
I have searched around quite a bit, but have been unable to find the terms to
search for to get these answers.I'm beginning to think I'll need to do it with
a VBA script, but am open to any simple method of doing it, since I type these
numbers dozens of times a day,
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help
Paul
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