Oh and as far as the 0000 go, thats a portuguese postal format. Again excel
already found your custom format as part of its special formats so it says
hey, we already have this so we're going to use what we call it since its not
really custom. I still dont see why this is a problem though. It would help
if you would tell me in what format you are exporting your data in that its
keeping your custom formatting.

Thanks,

Derek


Derek Y wrote:
This is because a german social security number is in that exact same format.
Its like typing in a custom format of 000-00-0000. If you do that it will
assume you meant a united states social security number format, etc etc.

I am trying to format three Columns of a sheet with the Custom datatype, one
0000000, another 0000, and the third 00000000. Data from the spreadsheet
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exporting from this sheet, the leading zeros are not transmmitted unless the
the correct format is recorded. Any ideas?


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