It's called leading zeroes. See:
http://www.officearticles.com/excel/...soft_excel.htm
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"B. Parizo" wrote in message
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Hi: Is it possible to have zero (0) placeholders in an excel 2003 cell.
For
example I have a column with number cells which calculate sequentially. I
have a need for the first and subsequent numbers to have four digits (ex.
0001, 0002 etc.). The zero's of course do not show when they are entered.
Is there a way to do this and still have it calculate??? Thanks in
advance.
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B. Parizo