lacy

[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!

 

[Don Guillett]

Please use meaningful subject lines.
Just format your cells as 00000000

 

[Don Guillett]

Please use meaningful subject lines.
Just format your cells as 00000000

 

[Laebrye]

Hi Lacy,

It looks like the operation you currently run is converting the numbers to
text. Try recording a Macro that performs text to columns on the column in
question (Data>Text to columns...). In the format section (on step 3 of 3) of
this process, select text.

This will convert the entire column to text though, and without seeing your
data I can have no idea what affect this might have on other processes.

But recording the text to columns process will give you the code you need.

Regards
Dave

 

[Laebrye]

Hi Lacy,

It looks like the operation you currently run is converting the numbers to
text. Try recording a Macro that performs text to columns on the column in
question (Data>Text to columns...). In the format section (on step 3 of 3) of
this process, select text.

This will convert the entire column to text though, and without seeing your
data I can have no idea what affect this might have on other processes.

But recording the text to columns process will give you the code you need.

Regards
Dave

 

[Jarek Kujawa]

select your cells
then CTRL+1 and define custom format 00000000


pls click YES if it helped

 

[Jarek Kujawa]

select your cells
then CTRL+1 and define custom format 00000000


pls click YES if it helped

 

[Jacob Skaria]

Select the column>Rightclick>FormatCells>Custom> Type eight zeroes as below
and OK

00000000

If this post helps click Yes

 

[Jacob Skaria]

Select the column>Rightclick>FormatCells>Custom> Type eight zeroes as below
and OK

00000000

If this post helps click Yes