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When preparing an Excel document for sort-merge mailing of our Xmas cards
the leading zero in ZIPcodes disappears.

How do I keep leading ZIPcode zeros from disappearing in Excel?
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try <format<number<special<Zipcode

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When preparing an Excel document for sort-merge mailing of our Xmas cards
the leading zero in ZIPcodes disappears.

How do I keep leading ZIPcode zeros from disappearing in Excel?

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Pre-format the cells as text before entering the numbers or precede each zip
code with an apostrophe.


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When preparing an Excel document for sort-merge mailing of our Xmas cards
the leading zero in ZIPcodes disappears.

How do I keep leading ZIPcode zeros from disappearing in Excel?


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