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Re: Leading Zeros?

Brad Houser (bradDOThouser@intel.com)
Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:40:50 -0800

AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote in message
news:telecom24.70.4@telecom-digest.org:

> A few quick tests show that the default behavior is to automatically
> and irretrievably discard leading zeros on integer numbers keyed
> into an Exce l worksheet cell or a Mathematic list.

If you enter the number in Excel with an apostrophe in front it will be
stored it as a number but display it as entered:

'00001 displays as 00001

Brad Houser

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