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jeniwren
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In Excel, is it possible to enter a number in one field and then in another field have that number automatically write out in long form? As in, cell A1 has 35, so B1 would have a value of Thirty Five.

Someone asked me this question yesterday and after digging through the function wizard, I couldn't find a function to do this. Any ideas anyone?

edited to make it a value of Thirty Five, not a vale of Thirty Five (which evokes interesting visual images)

[ January 27, 2004, 03:58 PM: Message edited by: jeniwren ]

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pooka
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I'd be concerned that if I ever got it to do that, I'd find I was unable to shut it off. I've used excell a lot, but that is a mystery to me.
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Richard Berg
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All it takes is a bit of VBS. Let's see what Google has to say:
http://www.google.com/search?cat=&q=excel+numbers+to+words

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I'm not able to find anything that will turn a number into long format at all.
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Farmgirl
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What RB said -- you would have to use VBA to do this -- in order to define the strings. It doesn't automatically know what words to use, I don't think.

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Jeni,

The google results from Richards link has lots of good examples. Should work without a problem.

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