Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Another Frequently used Excel Formatting trick

Hello all,

Whenever you export a numeric colum with leading zeros, excel trims/removes the leading zeros. I was running into an issue where I needed the leading zeros to be as is since they were meaningful(like in the case of zip codes which start with a zero) After a lot of searching I found the article

How to add leading zeros in Excel on eHow.com

which explains process in very simple terms. Here is the link to the article

http://www.ehow.com/how_4703826_add-leading-zeros-excel.html


Happy Excelling

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