Alpha-numeric point numbers in Civil3D

Compatibility: Civil3D

A colleague of mine asked if it was at all possible to create a drawing based on data which contained alpha numeric point numbers.

I went through the usual help and tutorial documents, discussion groups and cad blogs and came up empty. I was about to give up when I discovered a work around which gave just about the same result.
I was resigned to the fact that Civil3D would just not accept alpha Point Numbers - however it would happily accept alpha Point Names. So why not substitute one for the other?

Here's what I did to achieve this.