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[Xvanwyk]

Hi guys and gals, I want to create a spreadsheet containing cells with fixed characters after every 5 manually entered characters:
e.g. xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
So basically I want to type all 25 characters but have a "-" after every 5th character.

Can anyone possibly assist me in doing this?

 

[Haluk]

If they are all numbers, you can check the link below.

https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/625094-inset-dash-after-every-4-characters.html

 

[lrobbo314]

Here is a VBA option as well. This will automatically insert the dashes without needing to use formulas. Note that if you type in a 25 digit number excel will convert it to scientific notation and drop several numbers, so make sure to format the cells that you are going to be entering the numbers into as text.

Right click on the sheet that you are entering the numbers into, click 'View Code' and paste the following code. Also, adjust the line of code with the note to match the range where your data will be.

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Not Intersect(Target, Range("A1:A13")) Is Nothing Then 'Change to your range
    If Len(Target.Value) > 0 Then
        Application.EnableEvents = False
        Dim AR() As String
        Dim cnt As Long
        ReDim AR(1 To Len(Target) / 5)
        Dim res As String
        
        cnt = 1
        For i = 1 To Len(Target)
            AR(cnt) = AR(cnt) & Mid(Target.Value, i, 1)
            If i Mod 5 = 0 Then cnt = cnt + 1
        Next i
        
        res = Join(AR, "-")
        Target.Value = res
        Application.EnableEvents = True
    End If
End If
End Sub