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It is probably easier to just ask for what I want than to describe it but
here goes:

Say Column A is a column of integers; Column B is a single lower case text
character like x . What I want is for Column C to be a text string of the
lower case character in Column B the number in Column A long. See example
below:

Column A Column B Column C
2 a aa
5 s sssss
7 x xxxxxxx

How would you do something like this??

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Hi Mathew
try
=REPT(B1,A1)

If answer was helpful please say yes

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It is probably easier to just ask for what I want than to describe it but
here goes:

Say Column A is a column of integers; Column B is a single lower case text
character like x . What I want is for Column C to be a text string of the
lower case character in Column B the number in Column A long. See example
below:

Column A Column B Column C
2 a aa
5 s sssss
7 x xxxxxxx

How would you do something like this??

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Eduardo: Thanks that was perfect!

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Hi Mathew
try
=REPT(B1,A1)

If answer was helpful please say yes

"Mathew" wrote:

It is probably easier to just ask for what I want than to describe it but
here goes:

Say Column A is a column of integers; Column B is a single lower case text
character like x . What I want is for Column C to be a text string of the
lower case character in Column B the number in Column A long. See example
below:

Column A Column B Column C
2 a aa
5 s sssss
7 x xxxxxxx

How would you do something like this??

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