Excel Leading Zeros

[[email protected]]

Hi,

I'm recreating a "transID" made up of year,month, date,branch,
transaction number in the mainframe. The excel data contains all these
fields, but I've had to use format>cells>custom>00000 to ensure the
transaction number has leading zeros.

I'm trying to concatenate these fields, but the transaction number
reverts back no leading zeros, so what should be 2006010511100123,
looks like 200615111123.

I need to exactly replicate the "transID"

Any ideas ?

Rich

[Dave Peterson]

Build it up in pieces formatting each piece the way you want:

dim myStr as string
mystr = format(myYear,"0000") & _
format(mymonth,"00") & _
format(myday,"00") & _
and so on....

If that date is one field, you could use:
mystr = format(mydate,"yyyymmdd") & _
and so on...

If you're using worksheet formulas:

=text(a1,"yyyymmdd")&text(b1,"0000")&....



[email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm recreating a "transID" made up of year,month, date,branch,
> transaction number in the mainframe. The excel data contains all these
> fields, but I've had to use format>cells>custom>00000 to ensure the
> transaction number has leading zeros.
>
> I'm trying to concatenate these fields, but the transaction number
> reverts back no leading zeros, so what should be 2006010511100123,
> looks like 200615111123.
>
> I need to exactly replicate the "transID"
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Rich

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Dave Peterson

[goto_guy]

I just tried your example, and found that if I enter the information as text (with a leading apostrophe) it works just fine. It also works if you format the cells as text. But then you'll need to find a way to insert the appropriate number of leading zeroes. I'll putz around and see if I can come up with something.

[pinmaster]

Try something like this:

=TEXT(YEAR(NOW())&TEXT(MONTH(NOW()),"00")&TEXT(DAY(NOW()),"00")&A1&B1,"0000000000000000")

HTH
JG

"[email protected]" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm recreating a "transID" made up of year,month, date,branch,
> transaction number in the mainframe. The excel data contains all these
> fields, but I've had to use format>cells>custom>00000 to ensure the
> transaction number has leading zeros.
>
> I'm trying to concatenate these fields, but the transaction number
> reverts back no leading zeros, so what should be 2006010511100123,
> looks like 200615111123.
>
> I need to exactly replicate the "transID"
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Rich
>
>