Leading Zero as value not appearance

When i use formatting cell custom with 0000 i manage to add leading zero but
the problem is the leading zero only as appearance. Is it possible to make it
as value in the cell

Format the cell as Text.
Select the RangeDo Right ClickFormat CellsNumberCategoryText and
give ok. Now input your leading zero value in the text formatted range.

But the Values are not treated as real numbers and it is considered as Text
Values.

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"zyus" wrote:

When i use formatting cell custom with 0000 i manage to add leading zero but
the problem is the leading zero only as appearance. Is it possible to make it
as value in the cell

2 options.

You want value of 0123 in A1

Precede 0123 with an apostrophe.

OR in an adjacent cell =TEXT(A1,"0000")


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 01:28:05 -0700, zyus
wrote:

When i use formatting cell custom with 0000 i manage to add leading zero but
the problem is the leading zero only as appearance. Is it possible to make it
as value in the cell