Unfortunately, credit cards have 16 digits so we’re stuck with the problem. If we use 15 or less digits, the Custom format works fine. This only happens when using 16 or more digits. The custom format type we created is: 0000 0000 0000 0000 but we’ve also tried: # with the same results. The problem we’re having is that the last digit always turns into a 0 (zero) and the number ends up looking like this: 1234 1234 1234 1230 We are working with Credit Card numbers and want to be able to enter them as a 16 digit number like this: 1234123412341234 but want them to look like this: 1234 1234 1234 1234 I have a problem when formatting a cell that has 16 or more digits, using the Custom format. What are your favorite data formatting tricks? To fill rest of the cell with a character of your choice you have to use applies for text inputs).
#CUSTOM FORMATTING EXCEL CELLS CODE#
For formatting a phone number to a standard phone number format you have to use 0 00 as the custom formatting code.For formatting a number to fixed number of digits you have to use 0000 as the custom formatting code.Some explanation that you can skip if you already get it Ok, without further confusion, this is probably how you can use the custom cell formatting feature in Microsoft excel. If your formatting codes have less number of parts (say 1 or 2 or 3) excel will use some common sense to find out which ones are for what. Any cell custom format code will be divided in to 4 parts : positive numbers negative numbers zeros text. This is a bit like regular expressions but in entire microsoftish way. for US they would be phone number, ssn, zipcode.Ĭustom: Used for creating your own cell formatting structure. Special: Used for phone number, zipcode, social security number formats depending on the locale you select. Now apart from the built in types General (leave excel to guess the data format), number, currency, accounting (uses the separators, () notation etc.), date, time, percentage, fraction, scientific, text there are 2 interesting types of formating. I thought it would be nice to share them to you all.įirst take a look at how the cell formatting dialog box – number tab looks like: So I started looking for a custom cell format and dug a little deeper to understand those. Now I do not want to type “0001” in excel, instead I wanted to type 1 and I want excel to convert that to 0001 for me. We wanted to use a consistent message id format. The other day I had to make an excel sheet for tracking all errors across one of the applications we are doing for our customer.
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