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[Excel] Office Excel help needed

I have a large Access database which I have exported to Excel, I want to add a line of text to a row of cells. So for example if we have efg I want to add abcd to the start to make abcdefg.

Is there an easy way to do it other than pasting it hundreds of times?

Cudni
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Re: [Excel] Office Excel help needed

the simplest approach
in next column (B) enter a formula
where a2 contains efg

and copy down the formula
"..
click and hold on the handle of the cell with the formula, and drag.."

Cudni

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psglaspie
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If I understand what you want to do, you could use the concatenate function. Just insert a new column and use concatenate to add "abcd" to the contents of the existing column. Then you could need to "copy" and "paste special...values" into a third column. Delete the original column and your "concatenate" column.
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Same solution, though Cudni explained it better. Copy, paste special, delete old columns only necessary if you want to get rid of the original columns.
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Re: [Excel] Office Excel help needed

Thanks for the replies
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