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Peo Sjoblom Peo Sjoblom is offline
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Default add zeros in front of numbers

Custom format

00000

If you need to export is as text with leading zeros use a help column and a
formula

=TEXT(A1,"00000")

copy down, select the range and copy and paste special as values in place

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Peo Sjoblom


"dlb1228" wrote in message
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i have an acct# field and want to add 000 in front

585
00125
00356
12

i want to add 00 to 585 and 000 to 12 to make all the same length is
there some place to set this