Select cells
Use Format | Cells; open Custom tab
Enter 000
If you wish you could then format | align | left
best wishes
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Bernard V Liengme
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"GKW in GA" wrote in message
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Hiow can I convert a column of numbers from numeric to character and pad
with
2 zeros

e.g. I want the number 1 to appear as character 001