How to create increment number with or inside text in Excel?
In Excel, the Fill Handle feature can help you to fill continuous numbers with a certain increment, But, if you want to create increment number with text in Excel as below screenshot shown, the Fill Handle will not work. In this tutorial, we will show you two methods to create increment number with text in Excel.
Increment number with text by formula in Excel
Increment number with text with Kutools for Excel
Increment number with text by formula in Excel
You can create increment number with text by formula in Excel, please do as follows.
1. Create a worksheet with contents as below screenshot shown:
2. In cell D2, type the below formula into it and press the Enter key. Select the result cell and then drag the Fill Handle down to the cells you want to get the increment number with text. See screenshot:
=$A$2&TEXT(B2,"000")&$C$2
Notes:
Now you get the increment numbers with or inside texts.
Increment number with text with Kutools for Excel
After installing Kutools for Excel, you can easily create increment number with text in Excel. Please do as follows.
Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.
1. Click Kutools > Insert > Insert Sequence Number…. See screenshot:
2. In the Insert Sequence Number dialog box, click the New button to expand the dialog box, then you need to:
4. Now the sequence is created, please select the cells you want to fill with the increment number with text, and then click the Fill Range button. You can see the increment numbers with text are populated in the selected cells immediately. See screenshot:
Note: Next time when you apply the Insert Sequence Number feature with this created sequence, it will generate sequence numbers followed by the last number you inserted last time.
If you want to have a free trial ( 30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.
Increment number with text with Kutools for Excel
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