Forum Discussion

wcollette5's avatar
wcollette5
Copper Contributor
Nov 08, 2018

Problems with formatting text within a cell.

I am trying to take a location number ( example L4027) and have it appear in the cell as L4-027. Is there a formula that I could use to do this? 

  • Then it would be:

    =REPLACE(IF(LEN(A2)=6,REPLACE(A2,6,0,"-"),A2),3,0,"-")
    • wcollette5's avatar
      wcollette5
      Copper Contributor

      Wow! Thank you for showing me this. If I had one more cell similar to the previous question. Example - L4037B and I wanted it to appear as L4-037-B, using the previous equation leaves the B as this L4-037B. Is there another command that I need to place into the equation? 

      • Detlef_Lewin's avatar
        Detlef_Lewin
        Silver Contributor

        Then it would be:

        =REPLACE(IF(LEN(A2)=6,REPLACE(A2,6,0,"-"),A2),3,0,"-")

Resources