select your cells
then CTRL+1 and define custom format 00000000


pls click YES if it helped


On 22 Maj, 15:01, lacy wrote:
I have a column of sedols (sedols are security identifies) that is about 8000
rows long and will be refreshed with new data every day. *Sedols need to be 8
characters long. *The problem is, when I drop a sedol into excel that starts
with one or more zeros, *excel truncates the zeros which then leaves me with
an invalid sedol. *At that point I need to go in and change for example
“3128” to “ ‘0003128”. *Generally, there about 200 or so of these out of
8000. *Was wondering if there was a way to create a macro that would look at
all sedols in the range, check if they are 8 characters, and, if not, add
enough zeros as prefix to get to 8 characters…

thanks!