Having trouble with number series

[Cuzman]

I'm stuck on how to create a number series in Excel. For instance, I
can put the following in these respective cells:

A1 1
A2 2
A3 3

....and then I can fill the series down to A10000. However, I actually
need the numbers to be in the middle of some text. ie.

A1 abc00000000001abc
A2 abc00000000002abc
A3 abc00000000003abc

....so I can fill down to A10000000000. I can't seem to do this. Is
there a way that this can be done?

 

[VBA Noob]

Have you tried having the Number in Col A and Text in Col B and the
using Concatenate.

E.g enter A1&B1 in C1

VBA Noo

 

[Guest]

try put in A1 and copy down

="abc"&TEXT(ROW(),"00000000000")&"abc"




"Cuzman" skrev:

 

[Sandy Mann]

A klunky workaround:

Use a helper column with the numbers filled down, then in the column you
want to fill with:

="abc"&B1&"abc"

then copy and Paste Special back into the same column and then finally
delete the helper column

--
HTH

Sandy
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[Gord Dibben]

Cuzman

The numbers must be entered as text in the column to begin with.

In B1 enter '000001 and in B2 enter '000002

Drag/copy down to A10000(not to A10000000)

Then do the =A1&B1&C1

Or as Sandy' s formula if you prefer.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Cuzman]

excelent wrote:

* try put in A1 and copy down

="abc"&TEXT(ROW(),"00000000000")&"abc" *


Thanks to everyone who helped. The above suggestion worked perfectly.