I WANT to truncate my leading zeros
I have a number of cells with 000000099999, and want to truncate the
leading zeros off. I have tried several different things with formatting and can't figure it out, can someone help? thanks |
kimberly
Selec those cells and DataText to ColumnsNextNext. Format as General and Finish. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On 19 Apr 2005 13:36:23 -0700, wrote: I have a number of cells with 000000099999, and want to truncate the leading zeros off. I have tried several different things with formatting and can't figure it out, can someone help? thanks |
OR ... depending on the desired final format,
Select the cells, then just: <Data <Text To Columns <Finish -- Regards, RD -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... kimberly Selec those cells and DataText to ColumnsNextNext. Format as General and Finish. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On 19 Apr 2005 13:36:23 -0700, wrote: I have a number of cells with 000000099999, and want to truncate the leading zeros off. I have tried several different things with formatting and can't figure it out, can someone help? thanks |
Good point RD.
A few less steps which is always preferred. Gord On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:38:02 -0700, "RagDyer" wrote: OR ... depending on the desired final format, Select the cells, then just: <Data <Text To Columns <Finish |
That was it! Now, how weird though, when I tried to format them as a
column with general format, they didn't truncate, only the text to columns thing made it work. Mystery. |
Kimberly
Not a mystery. Simply changing formatting will not change the underlying value. The value of 00000999 was text. You must force it to change value as T to C did. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On 20 Apr 2005 16:53:45 -0700, wrote: That was it! Now, how weird though, when I tried to format them as a column with general format, they didn't truncate, only the text to columns thing made it work. Mystery. |
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