I'm not sure I understand the question but if you want a number to be
enetred as a set of 16 characters then display as four lots of four,
try this ...

FORMAT
CELLS
NUMBER
CUSTOM
0000 0000 0000 0000

If I've totally missed the point - sorry.


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