No, because as soon as you format to number, Excel will strip those leading
zeroes.

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RP
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"Gary's Student" wrote in message
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Bob:

Is there a way of formatting the numbers to get the leading zeros and
leave
them as numbers (not text)??
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Gary's Student


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Just use formulas

B1: = TEXT(A1,"000000")

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RP
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"Paul" <paulm dot c @ iol dot ie wrote in message
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Hi,

All the cells in Column B in a worksheet must be 6 chars long. If I
have a
string 123 in cell A1 using VBA how would I populate cell B2 with this
value
including leading Zero to fill the gap to 6 characters. Column A could
contain a number with anything between 1 and 6 characters.

So for example the result should be

A B
1 123 000123
2 52 000052
3 52174 052174

Thanks

Paul