If you enter your data preceded with a single apostrophe, Excel will leave it
alone.
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Gary's Student


"walkerdayle" wrote:


I'm trying to create a custom format to enter in some data. This is
what I've tried thus far and excel won't let me do it

@##@-#@@#-####-@#@@

I want to enter data that looks like this: B04Z-0FQ1-2323-U3FY

Any help??


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