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Kenny A. Kenny A. is offline
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Default How to stop Excel from automatically truncating leading zeros

Is there a setting in Excel 2007 to keep it from automatically trunkating
leading zeros like when pasting in zip codes or department codes. When Excel
sees what it thinks is a number, it treats it like a number and drops leading
zeros. Is there a setting in Options or somewhere to tell excel to leave the
leading zeros. We open lots of CSV files in EXCEL and it sees a number (such
as a department code) and drops the leading zeros. In simple, does Excel have
a setting to prevent this from happening as a default????

Thanks
Kenny