Custom formatting for Vehicle no. and Phone no.

Hello guys I want vehicle no. and phone no. in a particular format...
but I don't want to disturb the source data...
so I thought I should use custom formatting
but I am unable to come up with a solution especially for vehicle no.
as the no of characters varies from 9-10...
please look at the sample worksheet for a better layout...
I would really appreciate any help i can get...

For the Telephone set your custom formatting as follows:

+91 (###)###-####

I don't have a current solution for the Cars

Since you are using 2016, you have power query functionality available. Here is the Mcode for your issue.

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Power Query is a free AddIn for Excel 2010 and 2013, and is built-in functionality from Excel 2016 onwards (where it is referred to as "Get & Transform Data").

It is a powerful yet simple way of getting, changing and using data from a broad variety of sources, creating steps which may be easily repeated and refreshed. I strongly recommend learning how to use Power Query - it's among the most powerful functionalities of Excel.

- Follow this link to learn how to install Power Query in Excel 2010 / 2013.

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Excel does not apply custom formatting to text. You will have to use a formula for your vehicle numbers.

=LEFT(A5,4)&"-"&MID(A5,5,LEN(A5)-8)&"-"&RIGHT(A5,4)

For the phone numbers use

+91 (000)000-0000

Alan's PQ solution may do that, I am not up on PQ. However, there is no possible solution using just custom formats.

Macro to change in entry cell range A1:A100) - change as required

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