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How to add country/area code to a phone number list in Excel?

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For instance, you have a list of phone numbers, and now, your job is to add the same area code to each phone number of the list as below screenshot shown. Obviously, you can add the area code to them one by one manually, but it must be boring and time-wasted if there are hundreds of phone numbers in the list. This tutorial is talking about the tricks to quickly add same country or area code to a list of phone numbers in Excel.
Add country/area code to a list of phone number with formula
Add country/area code to a list of phone number with Kutools for Excel good idea3

1. Select a blank cell next to the phone number, take instance, C1, type this formula ="020"&A2 into it, and press Enter key, the drag the AutoFill handle from the right corner of the cell down to fill this formula to the cells you need. See screenshots:

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Tip: In the formula, “020”is the area code or country code you want to add to each phone number, and A1 is the cell you want to add code number, you can change them as your need.


If you do not like to use formula to solve this job, I can introduce a handy tool – Kutools for Excel for you. With Kutools for Excel’s Add Text function, you can quickly add a same text string to every cell of a list in the same location.

Kutools for Excel, with more than 300 handy functions, makes your jobs more easier. 

After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:(Free Download Kutools for Excel Now!)

1. Select all thephone numbers in the list you need, and click Kutools > Text > Add Text. See screenshot:

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2. In the Add Text dialog, enter the area/country code you want to add in the Text box, and check Before first character option, you can preview the results in the right pane. See screenshot:
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3. Click Ok or Apply, and you can see each phone number in the list has been added with the same area code.
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Tip: The Add Text utility will add area code or country code into phone number cells directly. As a result, you had better paste and save the original data in another location before applying this utility.

Note: With Add Text of Kutools for Excel, you also can add same text string to several positions of each cell as below screenshot shown:

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Hi,

how do I add the country code, but delete the first zero of the telephone number?
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Hi, Kim, just add the country code without first zero like this: ="86"&A1
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Just now Found a new and easy idea
Usually after using the formula cell visual will be updated but contents are will be only formula, i tried with paste spacial after using formula that page special method brings visual into real.
Follow the pictures
Its like add 91 or anything directly into the existing cell with a any text
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عاوز اكتب رقم الهاتف
01150837818هذا مع رمز الدوله والنطقه
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Thank you for the quick help!! it solved lot of time for me.
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How to add different Country or Area Code to A List Of Numbers?
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To add differenct Country or Area Code you only can handle it manually.
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i m trying to add the 91 content in .csv file but after adding 91 we get below content.
9.19325E+11


Rushikesh
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Hi, rushikesh, before you adding contents, you can try to format cells to text.
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HI ,


I NEED TO ADD +91 TO ALL MY CONTACTS . I DEED TRIED ABOVE FORMULAS BUT DIDNT WORKED



RIDDHI
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Hi, RIDDHI, have you tried this formula =A1&"+91"?
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how can i add +8801756472315 , + does not add , please help me
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proszę mi pomóc odnaleźć Wiktora Debeściak policjanta którego kocham i chciałbym się spotkać tylko z Wiktorem pomużcie mi jeżeli nie pomożecie to stanie się bardzo żle a w tedy będzie jeszcze gorzej
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Just put a ' before the +
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Both of the formula and Add Text work. Did you miss the quotes""?
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