Adding leading zeros
 

I'm converting an access report to excel and when I do, it is dropping the
leading zeros in column D and E. I need to write a macro to put the zeros
back in but my problem is that not every cell needs the zero added. Every
cell should be 6 alpha-numeric characters. If the data in the cell is only 4
characters, I need to add 2 leading zeros or if there is only 2 characters, I
would need to add 4 leading zeros. My spreadsheet very lengthy so I need a
macro to add the zeros, any help you can give me is appreciated, thank you.

Adding leading zeros
 

Why not just format the column as 000000?

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HTH

Bob

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"SITCFanTN" wrote in message
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I'm converting an access report to excel and when I do, it is dropping the
leading zeros in column D and E. I need to write a macro to put the zeros
back in but my problem is that not every cell needs the zero added. Every
cell should be 6 alpha-numeric characters. If the data in the cell is
only 4
characters, I need to add 2 leading zeros or if there is only 2
characters, I
would need to add 4 leading zeros. My spreadsheet very lengthy so I need
a
macro to add the zeros, any help you can give me is appreciated, thank
you.

Adding leading zeros
 

Format your cells using a customer format of
000000

That should do what you want.

HTH,
Paul

"SITCFanTN" wrote in message
...
I'm converting an access report to excel and when I do, it is dropping the
leading zeros in column D and E. I need to write a macro to put the zeros
back in but my problem is that not every cell needs the zero added. Every
cell should be 6 alpha-numeric characters. If the data in the cell is
only 4
characters, I need to add 2 leading zeros or if there is only 2
characters, I
would need to add 4 leading zeros. My spreadsheet very lengthy so I need
a
macro to add the zeros, any help you can give me is appreciated, thank
you.

Adding leading zeros
 

What the heck is "customer" format? That was supposed to be "custom"
format.

"PCLIVE" wrote in message
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Format your cells using a customer format of
000000

That should do what you want.

HTH,
Paul

"SITCFanTN" wrote in message
...
I'm converting an access report to excel and when I do, it is dropping
the
leading zeros in column D and E. I need to write a macro to put the
zeros
back in but my problem is that not every cell needs the zero added.
Every
cell should be 6 alpha-numeric characters. If the data in the cell is
only 4
characters, I need to add 2 leading zeros or if there is only 2
characters, I
would need to add 4 leading zeros. My spreadsheet very lengthy so I need
a
macro to add the zeros, any help you can give me is appreciated, thank
you.