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    convert general format to text format with "0" at beggining

    My boss ask me to convert to text format some files of previous encoded excel project, right now i am re-encoding them and there are tons of them. this is more or less how it looks like

    A B C
    1 5 7
    2 8 56
    3 10 5

    what is needed is like this:

    A B C
    1 05 07
    2 08 56
    3 10 05

    Is there an easy way to do this and the final format of the sheet is in text format?

    Thanks!
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    Re: convert general format to text format with "0" at beggining

    Use

    =TEXT(B1,"00")

    Copy down and across
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    Re: convert general format to text format with "0" at beggining

    put say a few columns over =TEXT(A1,"00") drag across and down to you have reproduced your range,yo can then copy past special over the original,
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    Re: convert general format to text format with "0" at beggining

    Woooh!!!

    Thanks very very much for the help. It made work so so very easy!


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