Defined number of characters

[Guest]

I have a spreadsheet that has numerical values in cells of different lengths,
ie xxx, xxxxxx, etc. I need to make all the values 6 characters long by
adding or removing zeros at the beginning and therefore not altering the
value. I then want it to appear as text rather than number. Can anyone help

 

[Guest]

If your value was in A1:

=TEXT(A1,"000000")

 

[Guest]

Try someting like:

=IF(LEN(A1)<=6,TEXT(A1,"000000"),TEXT(RIGHT(A1,6),"000000"))

HTH
JG

 

[PCLIVE]

One way:
=REPT(0,6-LEN(A1)) & A1

HTH,
Paul