I tried to look this up but my brain doesn't want to function today due to lack of sleep and I'm in a bit of a time crunch at work...
I have a range of unformatted 12 digit numbers (they actually contain a few letters also if that matters, example: TS310A124400) that I would like hyphens inserted into like so:
TS-31-0A-12-44-00
Thanks in advance.
One quick way:
=LEFT(A1,2)&"-"&MID(A1,3,2)&"-"&MID(A1,5,2)&"-"&MID(A1,7,2)&"-"&MID(A1,9,2)&"-"&RIGHT(A1,2)
or
=REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(A1,3,0,"-"),6,0,"-"),9,0,"-"),12,0,"-"),15,0,"-")
Last edited by NBVC; 07-15-2011 at 02:09 PM.
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