Just try it. You may like it.

Format to Custom 0000

1 will show as 0001
11 will show as 0011
111 will show as 0111
1111 will show as 1111


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:49:00 -0800, Krl wrote:

OK, this one is little more tricky. I am exporting numbers that are four
digits long, but may have only one two or three actual numbers? The digits
that preceed the actual numbers must be zero (eg- 0001, 0011, 0111). The
program that I export them from has the leading zeros in the fields, but they
don't show up on the spreadsheet and omit any zero that preceeds an actual
number. Depending on how many intagers that are in the number, the number of
leading zeros will be different.

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

Thanks for the correction
(I can't even blame the spell-checker this time.)
--
Gary's Student


"Pete_UK" wrote:

And I thought formatting only changed the appearance, not the value
<bg

I think you meant that 2 would appear as 0002 when formatted that way.

Pete

Gary''s Student wrote:

you can use formatting
for example if you want
2 to appear as
0001

then format the cell as custom 0000
--
Gary's Student


"nobby" wrote:

How do I show Leading Zero's in Excel