Active Oldest Votes. Type this in cell B1, and copy down Range "A". End xlUp. Row Step 1. Cells i, 2. Cells i, 1. Improve this answer. Adam- Is there any way to do it without copy,paste? I mean in the same column. LIX: sure. You can use the VBA code I have provided. In general, I find that using Excel formulae will only get you so far. For anything beyond the trivial, you'll need something more powerful anyway, so it may not hurt to start learning VBA now.
Best of luck. JohnB: left-click and drag downwards the small black box at the lower-right corner of the cell. Show 1 more comment. Could you make an example? Select the cell you want to be like this, go to cell properties or CTRL 1 under Number tab in custom enter "X" Put a space between " and if needed. Shawon Shawon 2 2 gold badges 10 10 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges.
I like this answer best. Even though OPs example made it appear as though he wanted both columns, I don't think that was a requirement. This is the only answer that avoids duplicate columns and I love it.
All the cells should have been added the specific prefix text. From the window that opens select custom and in the type input field start punching zeros. We must get a preceding zero by having 11 zeros. But even if you put 21 zeros its not affecting the numbers at all. There are many ways to do it but the easiest is modifying the existing formula in cell C2 a little as follows:. Now its a number. The best evidence is that the output is right aligned automatically.
Now if you apply number format it will work flawlessly. But hold your horses and if you have already decided to put 11 zeros in custom format options. There is a better solution. Follow along. Select the custom option from left and put the following in the type input bar and click OK:. If you only want the numbers to appear the right way then you can yourself a hassle of going through all the above steps.
And using custom format to have this done is the fastest and the easiest way to do it. Select custom from left hand side and insert the following in type input bar:.
Click OK button and here you have it. All the numbers with area code appended before each of them. Our previous situation was rather easy as all of the numbers were without area codes. To solve this problem we will have to tweak our formula a little more. Have a look at the data. You can see that numbers are formatted with dashes and that is the reason they are not really numbers and Excel is taking them as text but it will not affect us as we are not really going to use these contact numbers to perform any mathematical operations.
Or simply use to select the cells as they are not much. In other case i. This way the numbers that do not have area code before them will get it and the ones that do have will not be affected. Step 4: Double click the fill handle of cell B2 so that same formula is applied for the rest of the data. Dear Hasaan Thank you so much for your reply. Much appreciated As for the information required Ill do my best to explain. But, how to add same prefix or suffix to all cells in a column?
Full Feature Free Trial day! And now please specify the range you will add prefix or suffix for into the first KutoolsforExcel dialog box and click the OK button, and then type the suffix or prefix you will add into the second KutoolsforExcel dialog box and click the OK button. See below screenshots: Now the specified suffix or prefix has been added into each selected cell as below screenshot shown:. You may be not familiar with functions and VBA code in Excel.
And this Add Text utility of Kutools for Excel will help you insert prefix or suffix to any selected ranges quickly. Kutools for Excel - Includes more than handy tools for Excel.
Full feature free trial day, no credit card required! Free Trial Now! In the Add Text dialog box, enter your prefix or suffix in the Text box, check the Before first character option for adding prefix or After last character option for adding suffix as you need, and click the Ok button. And now the specified prefix or suffix is adding to each selected cells at once. Add text to the beginning or end of all cells. Note: The other languages of the website are Google-translated.
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