That's unfortunate. You'd think MS would have the ability to store driver's
license numbers in their correct format. They should have the formats
pre-defined just as they do with "Social Securtiy Number" and "Zip Code".
It's pretty rare I find something that MS Excel cannot do. What about using
an event driven macro - would that work? How would it work? Would you be
able to use the same cell?

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:58:05 -0700, excel user <excel
wrote:

I need to create a custom number format for a wisconsin driver's license
number (i.e. "S123-4567-8912-34") How can this be done?

000-0000-000-00 will do for the numeric part of the number,

\S000-0000-000-00 will do for the above where the numeric part is preceded by
the letter "S". (You would just enter the numbers)

but I don't think you can have a variable preceding letter in the format.

If you put your letter in A1, and the number in B1, then perhaps:


C1: =TEXT(B1,"\"&UPPER(A1)&"000-0000-000-00")

--ron