How do I preserve leading zeros in Excel?

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I want to put numbers that start with 1 or more 0s (i.e. 0001 or 0399) into a
cell but it keeps truncating the 0s. How can I get the number to stick
without storing it as text?
 
Keli, put a ' in front of it, it want show in the cell
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Keli

"Without storing as Text" cannot be done.

If you want to keep numeric, you can use a Custom Format of 0000

Enter your number 1 and will display as 0001

399 will display as 0399

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