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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. |
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Adding leading zeros
Why not just format the column as 000000?
-- --- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "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. |
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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. |
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What the heck is "customer" format? That was supposed to be "custom"
format. "PCLIVE" wrote in message ... 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. |
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