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Length of a cell with fixed characters including spaces

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    Hello All, I have a column where cells need to be 50 characters long, it contains addresses, however, since all the addresses do not meat the criteria, I need to add (blank spaces) to reach the 50 characters, any idea on how to approach this?

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    Fire Street #50 this cell contains 17 characters therefore I need to add the rest by adding blank spaces to reach 50 characters, otherwise the system I am exporting the data will not understand this cell

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    Hi

    Presuming your data is in A1,

    =A1&REPT(" ",(50-LEN(A1)))

    Will increase the length to 50 characters by adding spaces to the end.
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    Thanks, that worked

    Thanks a lot!

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    If by any chance the cell might contain MORE then 50 characters, this formula will add spaces to give 50 characters.....or truncate to the first 50 characters if there are more

    =LEFT(A1&REPT(" ",50),50)

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    Re: Length of a cell with fixed characters including spaces

    What if you want the spaces to precede the value? I tried RIGHT, but that doesn't work. Any help?

    Thank you.

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    Re: Length of a cell with fixed characters including spaces

    Try

    =RIGHT(REPT(" ",50)&A1,50)

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    Re: Length of a cell with fixed characters including spaces

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