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Prepend Text in Cells

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    Prepend Text in Cells

    Hello

    I have an excel file with 4000 rows and 2 columns. I would like to prepend all the cells in the first column with the text, "Question."

    Is there some way to do this without me having to manually add the text to 4000 cells?

    Thanks in advance

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    Re: Prepend Text in Cells

    Heres 1 method

    In a 3rd column enter this formula
    ="Question. " & A1
    fill formula down

    copy column with formula
    select 1st column
    PasteSpecial > Values
    Delete column with formula
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    Re: Prepend Text in Cells

    Thank you, that worked great!

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