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Adding text when using the Proper command in Excel

I have twenty pages of reports where the Account Names are all Caps and Indented.  

In A1 I have the following text:
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

I am putting the following formula in B1:
=Proper("A1")

Which yields:
Administrative Expenses

HOWEVER I was to add the number 1 in front of the subsequent text as follows:

1Administrative Expenses
or
1 Administrative Expenses
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Thanks.  That will do the trick.  It also solves my earlier dilemma.  Now I can do a F&R and replace the number with spaces.
I have a feeling you are complicating things. Why would you have to do a find and replace? Why don't you put what you want in the first instance?
You are, of course, right!  Sometimes you get mired in getting to the solution.
Your point is well taken.  
Thanks again.