Excel 2007 : Formula to enter x's in a 16 digit number

[Greg305]

Hi,
I'm fairly new to excel. I have row of numbers and each cell contains a 16 digit number. Is there a way to have the first 4 numbers replaced by X's and the last four digits also replace by X's. So only the middle 8 numbers are showing? Is there a formula I should be using or should I be using the Concatenate function? If so I'm not sure how to use it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You in advance

Greg

[GuruWannaB]

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(A1 where the 16 digit number is)

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Hope that helps

GWB

[Greg305]

Hi,

Thank You for the advice. My next posting will be more descriptive. And thank You for the formula. It worked as you said. But I realized I wrote the posting wrong. I need to have the first and last four digits to show numbers and the middle eight to be x's.

Thank You Again,
Greg

[daddylonglegs]

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[daddylonglegs]

Try this formula, Greg

=REPLACE(A1,5,8,"xxxxxxxx")