Hi Karthik!
Thanks for the reply!
I liked the use of the LEN & AND statements, but your formula seemed longer
than mine.
So I looked at yours again and realized I could ALSO use:
'=IF(Len(I2)<=5,CONCATENATE("AB",TEXT(I2,"00000")),I2)
Now granted, it does allow for accidental numbers, like 15,654 (which
doesn't exist in my database) to still come up with the AB prefix, however,
so did my original formula. I also tried:
=IF(AND(Len(I2)<=5,I2<15001),CONCATENATE("AB",TEXT(I2,"00000")),I2)
This actually strips the prefix away from numbers outside the range, making
errors easy to spot. I can use conditional formatting to make those numbers
error out in red.
Thanks for the Tip!
Paulie
1725
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