If I have an array that contains strings - some of which are numbers as
strings, why can't I write them to a range as a string?

For example if Array(1) = "000"

Why can't I say

Range("A1").Offset(1,1) = Array(1)

What I'm getting is 0 (without the leading 2 zeros) and when I do a
=IStext() test in the worksheet, I'm getting False.