I believe there's no way of doing this with custom format. If the text always has that structure (3 letters followed by 4 numbers) you can use text formulas to create the text you want:
=LEFT(A1, 3)&"-"&RIGHT(A1, 4) On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 3:48:20 PM UTC-4, Wendy Beckett wrote: > > Don't know if anyone can help me but I am trying to format cell contents > that are a combination of numbers and text. I would like the cell content > Jan1324 to display as Jan-1324 is there any way I can use the custom format > to do this? Any help appreciated its been driving me mad all day!! Thank > you > -- Are you =EXP(E:RT) or =NOT(EXP(E:RT)) in Excel? And do you wanna be? It’s =TIME(2,DO:IT,N:OW) ! Join official Facebook page of this forum @ https://www.facebook.com/discussexcel FORUM RULES 1) Use concise, accurate thread titles. Poor thread titles, like Please Help, Urgent, Need Help, Formula Problem, Code Problem, and Need Advice will not get quick attention or may not be answered. 2) Don't post a question in the thread of another member. 3) Don't post questions regarding breaking or bypassing any security measure. 4) Acknowledge the responses you receive, good or bad. 5) Jobs posting is not allowed. 6) Sharing copyrighted material and their links is not allowed. NOTE : Don't ever post confidential data in a workbook. Forum owners and members are not responsible for any loss. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MS EXCEL AND VBA MACROS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to excel-macros+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
