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Default Inserting a hyphen after the 3rd character
One way:

=LEFT(A1,3)&"-"&RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-3))

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Oct 29, 6:42*pm, wrote:
Hi All,

I am looking for a way to insert a hyphen (-) in a cell after the
third character. For example,

123456789 turns into 123-456789. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!!! *Jen

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