hi,
this is a problem in excel. excel interpets numbers as
numbers and well why do you need leading zero?
usually you have to reformat the data to get the leading
zeros back.
"pre-preparation"? yes. you can format the target range to
text.

-----Original Message-----
Hello,

Is there a way to affect the default formatting of
information when it
is copied from an outside source and pasted into an Excel
2000 spreadsheet?

I recently copied some information from an HTML table for
pasting into
Excel. The table contains a list of part numbers, some
of which begin
with zeroes, others of which contain a few letters. In
any instance
where the part number begins with a zero and has no
letters, any leading
zeroes are truncated and the number is formatted as a
number rather than
text.

Other data fields are misinterpreted as dates when pasted
into Excel.

I would like to prevent this automatic formatting.

Is there a global default setting to Excel that I can
change, or is
there any sort of "pre-preparation" I can make to a
spreadsheet before
pasting into it?
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Sincerely,
Don Hicks
Portland, Oregon
.