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JAMES T. JAMES T. is offline
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Default prefix a column of numbers with combination of zeros

Use custom format. 00#. any number entered in the column will be
preceded by two 00

pinny wrote:
How can I prefix a column of numbers with a combination of zeros? I have used
"find & replace" using the asterisk, but instead of prefixing the number of
zeros and the existing string it literally enters the replace input. i.e find
33*, replace 0033*, inputs 0033*. I thought that the asterisk would request
the remaining numbers.