With "010203040506070809" in A1, try this:

=IF(LEN($A1)<COLUMNS($A:A),"",MID($A1,2*COLUMNS($A :A)-1,2))

And copy across as needed.

Just places 2 characters in each column 'til you run out of data.

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HTH,

RD

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"kesse" wrote in message
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I may be missing something but I don't understand how this fixes the
problem.
I'm trying to seperate 9 digits out into 9 columns. All of them have
leading
zeros that need to be retained. But when I go to TextToColumns it doesn't
even bring in the leading zeros into the data preview. Selecting Text on
step
3 of 3 doesn't change anything. There's no delimiter so I'm trying to do
it
by fixed width unless you have another suggestion for that.

Thanks

"Norman Jones" wrote:

Hi Peggy,

The final screen of the TextToColumns wizard gi ves you the option of
selecting the format for each column. Select the text format option and
all
should be well.

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Regards,
Norman



"Peggy" wrote in message
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When I try to use Text To Columns to split a long series of numbers
into
several columns of numbers, if one of the numbers starts with a zero
it
isn't
retained. The zero gets dropped. I tried formatting the original
numbers
as
text - it didn't work.
Is there a way to split a numerical string into several columns and
retain
leading zeroe?