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Display numbers as phone numbers. Excel provides a special number format that lets you format a number as a phone number. For example, you can format a 10-digit number, such as 5555551234, as (555) 555-1234. Select the cell or range of cells that you want to format.
The TEXT function lets you change the way a number appears by applying formatting to it with format codes. It's useful in situations where you want to display numbers in a more readable format, or you want to combine numbers with text or symbols.
Excel provides a special number format that lets you format a number as a phone number. For example, you can format a 10-digit number, such as 5555551234, as (555) 555-1234. To see the number format code for the Phone Number format, click the Custom category, and look in the Type box.
Do you ever import or enter data in Excel that contains leading zeros, like 00123, or large numbers like 1234 5678 9087 6543? Examples of these are social security numbers, phone numbers, credit card numbers, product codes, account numbers, or postal codes.
In Excel, you can format numbers in cells for things like currency, percentages, decimals, dates, phone numbers, or social security numbers. Select a cell or a cell range. On the Home tab, select Number from the drop-down.
The REGEXEXTRACT function allows you to extract text from a string based on a supplied regular expression. You can extract the first match, all matches or capturing groups from the first match.
When you do combine numbers and text in a cell, the numbers become text and no longer function as numeric values. This means that you can no longer perform any math operations on them. To combine numbers, use the CONCATENATE or CONCAT, TEXT or TEXTJOIN functions, and the ampersand (&) operator.
Create and build a custom numeric format to show your numbers as percentages, currency, dates, and more. To learn more about how to change number format codes, see Review guidelines for customizing a number format.
To see the number format code for a built-in number format, click the Custom category, and look in the Type box. For example, the code [<=9999999]###-####;(###) ###-#### is used to display the phone number (555) 555-1234. For more information, see Create or delete a custom number format.
Whether the digits in your cell are formatted as text, numbers, or the special Social Security number format, you can use the same functions. To display only the last four digits of identification numbers, use the CONCATENATE, RIGHT, and REPT functions.
Add a column heading for each piece of information you want to record (for example, first name, last name, email address, phone number, and birthday), and then type the information in the appropriate columns.