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I want to display a four digit number which may or may not begin with zero,
i.e. (0215) (0050)
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You can format the cell beforehand as Text, or you could type an apostrophe
immediately before the number, e.g. '0400 will display as 0400.

Hope this helps.

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Try

use a custom cell format of 0000
that's 4 zeroes

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Thank you both (Pete & Mike) so much

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