Format a cell to accept text/number sequence

I am currrently producing a spreadsheet and need to format a column to be able to automate a list of text/numbers with the number at the end being consecutive: ie-
Pem-070412-CSP-A-001, Pem-070412-CSP-A-002 etc?
When I have entered the first number and then drag the corner of the box down it misses out the two zeros in front of 2, 3 etc?
I am sure that this is quite simple to achieve but for the life of me I cannot figure it out.
Many thanks in advance.
Derek

The auto-increment feature isn't working well for your sequence. Not much you can do about that so you'll have to work around it.
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Put Pem-070412-CSP-A in column A
Put 001 in column B and format the column with a special format that makes it three digits with leading zeros for unused digits (see the screenshot). Copy/drag that cell to the next row down and change that one to a 2. Select both then drag down to create your sequence of three digit numbers.
Column C formula = A & "-" & B
Another solution:
Put Pem-070412-CSP-A in column A
Put a 1 in column B of the same row and 2 in the row below. Select both and drag down to create the numerical sequence
Column C formula =A& "-" & CHOOSE(LEN(B),"00","0","") & B
In either case, you don't really need a column A full of "Pem-070412-CSP-A". You could just do the sequence of numbers in column A and use ="Pem-070412-CSP-" & A to create your strings.
In either case, you could use a formula like =B2+1 to create the sequence of numbers instead of doing it the way described above.
If you don't want all that stuff in your table, you can copy the completed sequences from column C, paste values (not paste) them into column A, then delete columns B and C.

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