Outputing significant figures to cell

**therealjag** · 09-24-2009, 11:54 AM

Hey there, I currently have a loop set up where a column in my sheet is updated with a track record number of the following format:

Row A
ALP1
ALP2
ALP3 and so on....

but what I would like to do is make it so that it appears as below:

Row A
ALP0001
ALP0002
'
'
ALP1023 and so on...

my sub I use to do this is of the form below:

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How would I go about changing the output so that it would show as above??

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

Jag

**royUK** · 09-24-2009, 11:55 AM

To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook, the workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook.

If needed supply a before and after sheet in the workbook so the person helping you can see what you are trying to achieve.

Doing this will ensure you get the result you need!

**shg** · 09-24-2009, 12:01 PM

Try this:

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E.g., =PadNums("ALP1", 4) returns ALP0001

**Marzuk** · 09-24-2009, 01:59 PM

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This will pad the number for records up to 999999. You could extend this as far as you needed within reason. This will work with anything in the format of PrefixXXX where XXX is a number.