Text with repeating trailing spaces

[briancrosier]

I need to create a text string from several different values that I have
calculated, however I need the resulting string to be fixed width (ie. the
first entry needs to be inserted followed by spaces to total 30 characters).
I know it can be done as I did this previously, but forget how. Can anybody
help?

 

[Gary''s Student]

=A1 & REPT(" ",30-LEN(A1))

 

[Gord Dibben]

=F5&REPT(" ",30-(LEN(F5)))

You haven't said what to do with remaining "several values" in the string
but just keep '&'ing


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Dave Peterson]

=left(a1&rept(" ",30),30)

Will truncate/pad the string in A1 at 30 characters.

 

[briancrosier]

Thnaks every body, it was the REPT function that I had forgotten.