I am doing a spreadsheet in excel and in the zip code field the zero is
falling off the front. it is 08015 and it keeps changing to 8015. can
anyone tell me why?

Excel eliminates leading 0s by default.
See this for help,
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...c53a3fddb34000
, or format your cells as text.

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"Pam" wrote:

I am doing a spreadsheet in excel and in the zip code field the zero is
falling off the front. it is 08015 and it keeps changing to 8015. can
anyone tell me why?

Pre-format the cell(s) as TEXT or type a leading apostrophe before typing the
zip with the leading zero........

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"Pam" wrote:

I am doing a spreadsheet in excel and in the zip code field the zero is
falling off the front. it is 08015 and it keeps changing to 8015. can
anyone tell me why?

Numbers are just numbers to excel. And 1 = 00000000001, so it doesn't care and
won't show them--unless you do something special.

#1. PRE-Format the cell as text (format|cells|number tab|Text)
#2. Start your data entry with an apostrophe ('08015)
#3. Give the cell a custom format
(Format|Cells|number tab|custom category)
00000
or if you could have 9 digit zips:
[99999]00000-0000;00000


Pam wrote:

I am doing a spreadsheet in excel and in the zip code field the zero is
falling off the front. it is 08015 and it keeps changing to 8015. can
anyone tell me why?

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