If you split the number into 3 cells then you either had to format the cells
as TEXT to keep the leading 0s, or, you used a custom number format of 000,
in which case the leading 0s are for display purposes only.

If the cells are TEXT then a formula like =A1&B1&C1 will retain the leading
0s.

If the cells use a custom number format of 000, then try this formula:

=TEXT(A1,"000")&TEXT(B1,"000")&TEXT(C1,"000")

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Confused" wrote in message
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I have some employee numbers in the format 923 022 033. I want to put the
numbers together without spaces. I split into cols and then recombined but
the leading zeros were missing. So instead of getting 922037022 I get
9232233. Any solution