Excel has only 15 digits precision so you can't use that as a numericial
format

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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

Excel 95 - Excel 2007
Northwest Excel Solutions
www.nwexcelsolutions.com
"It is a good thing to follow the first law of holes;
if you are in one stop digging." Lord Healey


"Jackie Kohlman" <Jackie wrote in message
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I need to keep the leading zeros and the hyphens. Is there a way to do this?

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Excel has only 15 digits precision so you can't use that as a numericial
format

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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

Excel 95 - Excel 2007
Northwest Excel Solutions
www.nwexcelsolutions.com
"It is a good thing to follow the first law of holes;
if you are in one stop digging." Lord Healey


"Jackie Kohlman" <Jackie wrote in message
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preformat the cell as text and type all the 0's and hyphens

(or start your entry with an apostrophe:
'001-00234-00012-123


Jackie Kohlman wrote:

I need to keep the leading zeros and the hyphens. Is there a way to do this?

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Excel has only 15 digits precision so you can't use that as a numericial
format

--

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

Excel 95 - Excel 2007
Northwest Excel Solutions
www.nwexcelsolutions.com
"It is a good thing to follow the first law of holes;
if you are in one stop digging." Lord Healey


"Jackie Kohlman" <Jackie wrote in message
...





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Dave Peterson

I am copying data from a SQL database into an excel ss. I must preformat the
cells of the ss that the data is being pasted to. This method still does not
keep the leading zeros. I am trying to eliminate the need to retype 4000+
numbers. Any suggestions?

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

preformat the cell as text and type all the 0's and hyphens

(or start your entry with an apostrophe:
'001-00234-00012-123


Jackie Kohlman wrote:

I need to keep the leading zeros and the hyphens. Is there a way to do this?

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Excel has only 15 digits precision so you can't use that as a numericial
format

--

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

Excel 95 - Excel 2007
Northwest Excel Solutions
www.nwexcelsolutions.com
"It is a good thing to follow the first law of holes;
if you are in one stop digging." Lord Healey


"Jackie Kohlman" <Jackie wrote in message
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Dave Peterson

Are you simply copying and pasting?

I've pasted into Notepad, saved that file, then used file|open to bring in that
data. I could specify text as the field type when I brought in that field.



Jackie Kohlman wrote:

I am copying data from a SQL database into an excel ss. I must preformat the
cells of the ss that the data is being pasted to. This method still does not
keep the leading zeros. I am trying to eliminate the need to retype 4000+
numbers. Any suggestions?

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

preformat the cell as text and type all the 0's and hyphens

(or start your entry with an apostrophe:
'001-00234-00012-123


Jackie Kohlman wrote:

I need to keep the leading zeros and the hyphens. Is there a way to do this?

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Excel has only 15 digits precision so you can't use that as a numericial
format

--

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

Excel 95 - Excel 2007
Northwest Excel Solutions
www.nwexcelsolutions.com
"It is a good thing to follow the first law of holes;
if you are in one stop digging." Lord Healey


"Jackie Kohlman" <Jackie wrote in message
...





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Dave Peterson


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Dave Peterson

Go to Format, Cells, Custom

Type in the exact string you want with the zeros and the hyphens and click
ok

Any data entered will then be in that format

Saruman

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