Combing 2 Columns That Contain Over 16 Numbers And Have Them Display Correctly

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I have 2 columns that I am combing via VBA, the first column contains invoice numbers that are 7 digits long and the second column contains part numbers that are 12 digits long and contain a "-" and a "*". Everything works fine until I remove the "-" and the "*", I get a bunch of "#"'s and if I convert the column to text I get a scientific notation. I know that if I was manually typing in the cell I could add " ' ", but how do I do that, or similar, via VBA.

Code: 
    Range("Table1[Lookup]").NumberFormat = "Text"    
    Range("Table1[Lookup]").FormulaLocal = "=[@InvoiceNumber]&[@PartNumber]"
    Range("Table1[Lookup]").Copy
    Range("Table1[Lookup]").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues
    Range("Table1[Lookup]").NumberFormat = "Text"
    Range("Table1[Lookup]").Select
    Selection.Replace What:="~*", Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlPart, _
        SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
        ReplaceFormat:=False
    Range("Table1[Lookup]").Select
    Selection.Replace What:="-", Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlPart, _
        SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
        ReplaceFormat:=False
 

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[TABLE="width: 427"]
<colgroup><col><col><col><col span="2"></colgroup><tbody>[TR]
[TD]inv[/TD]
[TD]part[/TD]
[TD]combine[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]1234567[/TD]
[TD]987-65432*11[/TD]
[TD]1234567987-65432*11[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
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[TD][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]is this what you want ?[/TD]
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[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
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</tbody>[/TABLE]
 
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[TABLE="width: 406"]
<colgroup><col><col><col><col></colgroup><tbody>[TR]
[TD]inv[/TD]
[TD]part[/TD]
[TD]combine[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]1234567[/TD]
[TD]987-65432*11[/TD]
[TD]1234567987-65432*11[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]is this what you want ?[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]or this[/TD]
[TD]12345679876543211[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
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[/TR]
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[TD][/TD]
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[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
 
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oldbrewer said:
[TABLE="width: 406"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]inv
[/TD]
[TD]part
[/TD]
[TD]combine
[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]1234567
[/TD]
[TD]987-65432*11
[/TD]
[TD]1234567987-65432*11
[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="colspan: 2"]is this what you want ?
[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]or this
[/TD]
[TD]12345679876543211
[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
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dmcgetti said:
I have 2 columns that I am combing via VBA, the first column contains invoice numbers that are 7 digits long and the second column contains part numbers that are 12 digits long and contain a "-" and a "*". Everything works fine until I remove the "-" and the "*", I get a bunch of "#"'s and if I convert the column to text I get a scientific notation. I know that if I was manually typing in the cell I could add " ' ", but how do I do that, or similar, via VBA.

Code: 
    Range("Table1[Lookup]").NumberFormat = "Text"    
    [B][COLOR="#FF0000"]Range("Table1[Lookup]").FormulaLocal = "=[@InvoiceNumber]&[@PartNumber]"[/COLOR][/B]
    Range("Table1[Lookup]").Copy
    Range("Table1[Lookup]").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues
    Range("Table1[Lookup]").NumberFormat = "Text"
    Range("Table1[Lookup]").Select
    Selection.Replace What:="~*", Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlPart, _
        SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
        ReplaceFormat:=False
    Range("Table1[Lookup]").Select
    Selection.Replace What:="-", Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlPart, _
        SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
        ReplaceFormat:=False
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Does changing the highlighted line of code to this make it work for you...

Range("Table1[Lookup]").FormulaLocal = "=""'""&[@InvoiceNumber]&[@PartNumber]"
 
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dmcgetti said:
No luck, thanks
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Describe "no luck" for me. What actually happened or didn't happen that should have happened? Just so you know, the code worked for me when I set up an Excel table object, named it "Table1" and put columns with the headers "InvoiceNumber", "PartNumber" and "Lookup" in it and then put the values 'oldbrewer' showed in the columns he labeled "inv" and "part" (Message #3 ) into them.
 
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Rick Rothstein said:
Describe "no luck" for me. What actually happened or didn't happen that should have happened? Just so you know, the code worked for me when I set up an Excel table object, named it "Table1" and put columns with the headers "InvoiceNumber", "PartNumber" and "Lookup" in it and then put the values 'oldbrewer' showed in the columns he labeled "inv" and "part" (Message #3 ) into them.
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Scratch that, it did "work", I had a typo.

That combines them, but the " ' " is in the cells that are all numbers, and I need the cells to just contain the InvoiceNumber and PartNumber because that column is used as look up field.
 
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dmcgetti said:
Scratch that, it did "work", I had a typo.

That combines them, but the " ' " is in the cells that are all numbers, and I need the cells to just contain the InvoiceNumber and PartNumber because that column is used as look up field.
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The apostrophe should only be appearing in the Formula Bar... it should not be visible in the cell itself. As long as this is the case, your lookup should work as long as what you are looking up is text (otherwise all of the digits will not be correct in the value you are looking up). If you are still having trouble, show us the code that is doing the look up.
 
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Rick Rothstein said:
The apostrophe should only be appearing in the Formula Bar... it should not be visible in the cell itself. As long as this is the case, your lookup should work as long as what you are looking up is text (otherwise all of the digits will not be correct in the value you are looking up). If you are still having trouble, show us the code that is doing the look up.
Click to expand...

It is showing up in the cell, but it is working none the less, so thanks!
 
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