You can't, you can use a custom format like 00 and the left align format it
the regular way
or you can precede the entry with an apostrophe when you enter it


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom


"chanceygardener" wrote in
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I have a cell that is formated with general formating. it has a number in
it. the cell was populated using a brio query. it appears as 06 left
justified, as if it was formated using text but it is not. when I hit f2
to
change the number to 07 and then hit enter it appeares as 7 right
justified,
the way it should. Why does the data appear as 06 and how can I keep it
appearing with the leading 0 and left justified with general formating
after
I change it to a differ number?