Format Cells for Driver's License numbers

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I am trying to format cells to show driver's license numbers as:

S-123-456-789-012

The DL #s currently are showing as a couple of different general entries - such as:

S123456789012 or
S123-456-789-012

How can I have excel change from the current format of varying entries to a standard entry as S-123-456-789-012?
 

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Since it is an alphanumeric string, you can't use a custom format. You'll need to either use VBA to automatically replace the value with the formatted one (hard-coding in the dashes) or you'll need to have a formula in another column to insert the dashes for you, storing the value as a string.
 
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This function will do what you want at the expense of an extra column in your worksheet:-
Code: 
[FONT=Courier New][SIZE=1]Option Explicit[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New][SIZE=1][/SIZE][/FONT] 
[FONT=Courier New][SIZE=1]Public Function Reformat3x4(argString As String) As String[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New][SIZE=1][/SIZE][/FONT] 
[FONT=Courier New][SIZE=1]  Dim strTemp As String
  
  strTemp = Replace(argString, "-", "")
  strTemp = Left(strTemp & String(13, "?"), 13)
  strTemp = Left(strTemp, 1) _
          & "-" & Mid(strTemp, 2, 3) & "-" & Mid(strTemp, 5, 3) _
          & "-" & Mid(strTemp, 8, 3) & "-" & Mid(strTemp, 11, 3)
         
  Reformat3x4 = strTemp[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New][SIZE=1][/SIZE][/FONT] 
[FONT=Courier New][SIZE=1]End Function[/SIZE][/FONT]
If your licence number is in A1, use the formula =Reformat3x4(A1) to produce a reformatted version. There's very little error-checking - only the length is checked and if it's not thirteen characters, it gets padded with question marks. If you need more error-checking, that's easily incorporated.
 
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