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Default Why does Excel, drop beginning zeros in zip codes on mailing l



"mrice" wrote:


If you add an apostrophe to the front of the zip code, this shouldn't
happen. It forces Excel to recognise the characters as a string instead
of a number.


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Thank you will try it