fill or truncate to a certain number of characters in a cell

Jan Buckley · Mar 16, 2005

I need to convert cells containing text to exactly 12 characters either by
truncating or filling with spaces. Does anyone know a formula that will do
that? Thanks.

Jan Buckley

JulieD · Mar 16, 2005

Hi Jan

with your data in cell A2

=IF(LEN(A2)>12,LEFT(A2,12),A2 & REPT(" ",12-LEN(A2)))

Cheers
JulieD