I simply add an apostrophe before the zero.

"asSYSter" wrote:

When entering data in an Excel spreadsheet, any zip codes that begin with
zero, such as mine "03301" drop the leading zero. Why can't one of the
formatting options be a zip code format that deals with the fact that you
need to change the format to text (which doesn't always work)?

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