Maybe Format|Cells|Custom, then try '000' (without quotes) for 3 digit
numbers


"sportsandspeed" wrote in message
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Dumb question, but how do I begin a cell value with the number zero? I've
tried changing the cell format to text and that didn't work. I also tried
putting a ' in fornt and that worked until I closed the file and reopened
it.
After reopening, the zero was missing again. By the way, I'm using Excell
2003.