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Gary Keramidas Gary Keramidas is offline
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Default How can I remove leading zeros?

try this if the cell in B2 had your example

=SUBSTITUTE(B2,"0","")

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Gary


"AccessHelp" wrote in message
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Hello,

I have a field with values "AAAA", "0AAA", "00AA", and "000A". I want to
remove leading zeros on the ones with leading zeros. For example, "0AAA"
will turn into "AAA".

Can someone help me with the formula? I have tried using "Val" and "Str",
and they don't seem to work.

Thanks.