format cell to show leading zeros and make cell a three digit fiel
 

I have a field that has a single digit number in it now, like 2. I want to
fornat the field to add 2 leading zero's to make a three digit entry. How do
I do this with a formula, withut going thru entire spreadsheet and fomartting
the column to be tex and adding the leading zeros cell by cell? Please help!

format cell to show leading zeros and make cell a three digit fiel
 

try custom formatting as 000

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Kristin" wrote in message
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I have a field that has a single digit number in it now, like 2. I want to
fornat the field to add 2 leading zero's to make a three digit entry. How
do
I do this with a formula, withut going thru entire spreadsheet and
fomartting
the column to be tex and adding the leading zeros cell by cell? Please
help!

format cell to show leading zeros and make cell a three digit fiel
 

Custom format of 000

You will still have a 1 digit entry that looks like 3 digits.

You cannot actually have an entry like 002 unless it is text.

A formula.....=TEXT(A1,"000")


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:28:01 -0700, Kristin
wrote:

I have a field that has a single digit number in it now, like 2. I want to
fornat the field to add 2 leading zero's to make a three digit entry. How do
I do this with a formula, withut going thru entire spreadsheet and fomartting
the column to be tex and adding the leading zeros cell by cell? Please help!