pre-format or use 00000000 as many as you need for a custom format

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"SueB" wrote in message
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Thats the problem, the people that will be using the sheet will probably
never be able to remember that. Is there any other way to get it to
reference as a number?

"Niek Otten" wrote:

Don't enter them as a number (because they aren't; they are text
references), enter them as text.
Either format the cells as text before entering the references, or
precede
them with an apostrophe (which will not show)

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten

"SueB" wrote in message
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Hello i am trying to figure out some basic sums but the forulas will
not
differentiate between two numbers if one begins with a 0. in other
words
if i
enter the number 3 in a cell it give me the same results as if i
entered a
03. i need it to be able to diffentiate between the two as they are
two
seperate references.
=SUMIF(B$3:B$16,"03",A$62:A$75)