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masking with symbol xxxx
hi community
kindly can anybody assist me in these task... i hv following numbers sequence and wanted to mask the middle number with symbol xxxx example: number: to masked 4556-1234-2345-1234 to 4556-xxxx-xxxx-1234 0377-0123-1234-1234 to 0377-xxxx-xxxx-1234 082-012345-1 to 082-xxxxxx-1 what i did was i use the mid function to extract and later do concatenating of cells, is there any way that can help me to improvise the masking ?? & and for the 2nd set of number, when I use concatenation, the zero digit in front does not appear. thanks community for the kind assistance given :) -- oldLearner57 |
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When you say "masking", do you mean you are physically changing the value in
the cell so that the original value no longer exists? Or are you just placing the "mask" in a separate cell while retaining the original value in the original cell? Also, are you allowed to use VB code (macros or UDF) in your workbook? Rick "oldLearner57" wrote in message ... hi community kindly can anybody assist me in these task... i hv following numbers sequence and wanted to mask the middle number with symbol xxxx example: number: to masked 4556-1234-2345-1234 to 4556-xxxx-xxxx-1234 0377-0123-1234-1234 to 0377-xxxx-xxxx-1234 082-012345-1 to 082-xxxxxx-1 what i did was i use the mid function to extract and later do concatenating of cells, is there any way that can help me to improvise the masking ?? & and for the 2nd set of number, when I use concatenation, the zero digit in front does not appear. thanks community for the kind assistance given :) -- oldLearner57 |
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the set of number will be change to example 4556-1234- 2345-1234 to 4556-xxxx-xxxx-1234 and the rest similar format is there any simple way besides doing macro? much appreciated for the assistance :) thanks community -- oldLearner57 "Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote: When you say "masking", do you mean you are physically changing the value in the cell so that the original value no longer exists? Or are you just placing the "mask" in a separate cell while retaining the original value in the original cell? Also, are you allowed to use VB code (macros or UDF) in your workbook? Rick "oldLearner57" wrote in message ... hi community kindly can anybody assist me in these task... i hv following numbers sequence and wanted to mask the middle number with symbol xxxx example: number: to masked 4556-1234-2345-1234 to 4556-xxxx-xxxx-1234 0377-0123-1234-1234 to 0377-xxxx-xxxx-1234 082-012345-1 to 082-xxxxxx-1 what i did was i use the mid function to extract and later do concatenating of cells, is there any way that can help me to improvise the masking ?? & and for the 2nd set of number, when I use concatenation, the zero digit in front does not appear. thanks community for the kind assistance given :) -- oldLearner57 |
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If you want to change the contents of a cell that is not the result of a
formula, then no, you will have to use VBA. A cell can either contain data or a formula, but not both. If you are manually putting those values into the cell, then there cannot be a formula in that cell too. Here is a macro that will change all values in a selection the way you asked for... Sub ReplaceWithXs() Dim X As Long Dim R As Range Dim Parts() As String For Each R In Selection Parts = Split(R.Value, "-") For X = 1 To UBound(Parts) - 1 Parts(X) = String(Len(Parts(X)), "X") Next R.Value = Join(Parts, "-") Next End Sub Rick "oldLearner57" wrote in message ... hi the set of number will be change to example 4556-1234- 2345-1234 to 4556-xxxx-xxxx-1234 and the rest similar format is there any simple way besides doing macro? much appreciated for the assistance :) thanks community -- oldLearner57 "Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote: When you say "masking", do you mean you are physically changing the value in the cell so that the original value no longer exists? Or are you just placing the "mask" in a separate cell while retaining the original value in the original cell? Also, are you allowed to use VB code (macros or UDF) in your workbook? Rick "oldLearner57" wrote in message ... hi community kindly can anybody assist me in these task... i hv following numbers sequence and wanted to mask the middle number with symbol xxxx example: number: to masked 4556-1234-2345-1234 to 4556-xxxx-xxxx-1234 0377-0123-1234-1234 to 0377-xxxx-xxxx-1234 082-012345-1 to 082-xxxxxx-1 what i did was i use the mid function to extract and later do concatenating of cells, is there any way that can help me to improvise the masking ?? & and for the 2nd set of number, when I use concatenation, the zero digit in front does not appear. thanks community for the kind assistance given :) -- oldLearner57 |
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=LEFT(A1,FIND("-",A1))&SUBSTITUTE(REGEX.SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(MID(SUBSTI TUTE(A1,"-",REPT("
",99)),6,(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-","")))*99)),"[0-9]","x")," ","-")&"-"&TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",REPT(" ",99)),99)) "oldLearner57" wrote: hi the set of number will be change to example 4556-1234- 2345-1234 to 4556-xxxx-xxxx-1234 and the rest similar format is there any simple way besides doing macro? much appreciated for the assistance :) thanks community -- oldLearner57 "Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote: When you say "masking", do you mean you are physically changing the value in the cell so that the original value no longer exists? Or are you just placing the "mask" in a separate cell while retaining the original value in the original cell? Also, are you allowed to use VB code (macros or UDF) in your workbook? Rick "oldLearner57" wrote in message ... hi community kindly can anybody assist me in these task... i hv following numbers sequence and wanted to mask the middle number with symbol xxxx example: number: to masked 4556-1234-2345-1234 to 4556-xxxx-xxxx-1234 0377-0123-1234-1234 to 0377-xxxx-xxxx-1234 082-012345-1 to 082-xxxxxx-1 what i did was i use the mid function to extract and later do concatenating of cells, is there any way that can help me to improvise the masking ?? & and for the 2nd set of number, when I use concatenation, the zero digit in front does not appear. thanks community for the kind assistance given :) -- oldLearner57 |
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