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Add common prefix to all cells in Excel

Asked 2010-04-24T06:10:48.617
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I have a column with some text in each cell.
I want to add some text, for example "X", at the start of all cells. For example:

A             B
-----  >>>>  ----
1            X1
2            X2
3            X3

What is the easiest way to do this?

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Type this in cell B1, and copy down...

="X"&A1

This would also work:

=CONCATENATE("X",A1)

And here's one of many ways to do this in VBA (Disclaimer: I don't code in VBA very often!):

Sub AddX()
    Dim i As Long

    With ActiveSheet
    For i = 1 To .Range("A65536").End(xlUp).Row Step 1
        .Cells(i, 2).Value = "X" & Trim(Str(.Cells(i, 1).Value))
    Next i
    End With
End Sub
answered 2010-04-24T06:17:53.203

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