editing multiple cells with a macro

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lacy

I have a column of sedols (sedols are security identifies) that is about 8000
rows long and will be refreshed with new data every day. Sedols need to be 8
characters long. The problem is, when I drop a sedol into excel that starts
with one or more zeros, excel truncates the zeros which then leaves me with
an invalid sedol. At that point I need to go in and change for example
“3128†to “ ‘0003128â€. Generally, there about 200 or so of these out of
8000. Was wondering if there was a way to create a macro that would look at
all sedols in the range, check if they are 8 characters, and, if not, add
enough zeros as prefix to get to 8 characters…

thanks!
 

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