fill out shortened numbers

Hi everyone,

With apologies for cross-posting, posted also here: http://www.excelfox.com/forum/showth...e-page-numbers

I need help with the following. I have a large set of page numbers, as below.

Column A has the following shortened number format:
A1: 3, 6-8, 24-56, 78, 123-45, 254-65
A2: 55-6, 122-6, 156-68
A3: 45, 255-8, 212-24
and so on

I need the following non shortened numbers in column B:
B1: 3, 6-8, 24-56, 78, 123-145, 254-265
B2: 55-56, 122-126, 156-168
B3: 45, 255-258, 212-224

Please note that sometimes the original shortening is to the last two digits (as in A1) and sometimes to the last digit (as in A2, A3), but in both cases I need output as in B1, B2, B3.

Many thanks,
Moshe

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Originally Posted by moblid

Hi Jindon, this works great...

Are you sure it works as you need it to all of the time? What if you had this in a cell...

45, 255-3, 212-24

Jindon's code changes the red highlighted part to this...

45, 255-253, 212-214

whereas I would think you would want it to change to this instead...

45, 255-263, 212-214

Am I correct on what I think you would want for such a situation? If so, then what should the red highlighted part below become

45, 255-34, 212-24

I am thinking 334... would that be correct? If so, give this macro a try...

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Note: The above code looks in Column A for its data and puts the output in Column B (that is what you explicitly asked for in Message #1)>

Originally Posted by moblid

Hi, thanks very much for your code. Actually I think what Jindon gave was good for me because my material does not shorten numbers in the way you describe; in case you wanted to 255-263 they would always write 255-63, and not 255-3.

Okay, so I am guessing that something like 294-312 would never be shortened to 294-12 then.