How do I format/pad a number to have at least 5 digits?

kakiebos

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I'm working on a macro which involves generating a filename and saving an excel sheet as pdf with that name.
I was able to generate target folder name as follows.

user_name [/FONT][/COLOR]= Environ$("UserName")
file_dir
="C:\Users"& user_name &"\Documents\Jobs"</code>The file name is created as follows.

<code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; white-space: inherit;">Job_No = Site &"SV"& num_from_cell
PDF
= Job_No &".pdf"
file_path
= file_dir & PDF</code>Currently the above code returns MWSV234.pdf. I want it to be MWSV00234.pdf. num_from_cell comes from one of the cells in excel sheet.
In short, I want to left pad <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); white-space: pre-wrap;">num_from_cell</code> to 5 digits. Could you please tell me how?
 
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Sorry. I posted the same question in another forum and just copied my question from there to this forum. I do not know how to link it to this thread.
 
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Sorry. I posted the same question in another forum and just copied my question from there to this forum. I do not know how to link it to this thread.
Simply go to the other thread, highlight and copy the entire URL, and then paste it in a reply here. The board should automatically turn that URL in a link for you (you do not need to do anything special with it).

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I am going to merge the two threads together.
 
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