just getting back into excel formulas... this is probally an easy
question....

i basically have a collumn full of account numbers that represent
numeric strings....

if the first position of the string is a zero, i would like to pull it
out... so 01147548 would become 1147548 -- thanks!


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Copy an empty cell, select the numbers and do editpaste special and select
add, then use a format like
General and leading zeros won't show, if you need the numbers to be text you
can use a help column, assume they start in A1 in the first cell use

=IF(LEFT(TRIM(A1))="0",RIGHT(TRIM(A1),LEN(TRIM(A1) )-1),A1)

copy down as long as needed then paste special as values in place, now you
can remove the original column

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just getting back into excel formulas... this is probally an easy
question....

i basically have a collumn full of account numbers that represent
numeric strings....

if the first position of the string is a zero, i would like to pull it
out... so 01147548 would become 1147548 -- thanks!


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If your cell is formated as "General" the leading "0" should disappear
automatically.


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the formula worked great... thanks!!!!!


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