Smart inserting od colons

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I have a column of minutes/seconds stamps, but without a colon, ie. 1245 [as 12:45] or 4555 [as 45: 55]. Is there a shortcut method of inserting the colon between the 2nd and 3rd digits?
 

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You could do that with a fairly simple wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = <([0-9]{1,2})([0-9]{2})>
Replace = \1:\2
If you have other 3-4 digit numbers (e.g. years, numbers with thousands separators), I recommend not using ReplaceAll.
 
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You could do that with a fairly simple wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = <([0-9]{1,2})([0-9]{2})>
Replace = \1:\2
If you have other 3-4 digit numbers (e.g. years, numbers with thousands separators), I recommend not using ReplaceAll.
Thanks! Can you tell me, is there any book to learn such tricks?
 

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