keep the 0 as the fiirst number in a set

[Guest]

i am entering a set of numbers in a colum and the first diget is 0, how do
you keep that o showing when you go to the next cell?

 

[Steve R]

Bob

Maintaining a leading zero requires either customs formatting or data entry
as text.
Taking the latter first, entering ' as the first digit causes Excel to
recognise data as text. Example '01 will show as 01. Disadvantage: no
mathematical calculations.

Formatting only changes the way users see the result. There is a good
explanation on the page below.
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=146

Steve

 

[CLR]

You can highlight the column, Right-click > FormatCells > NumberTab > choose
the TEXT selection > OK...........this way, if you have a lot of entries to
do, you don't have to type a leading apostrophe to change each cell to TEXT
format individually..........

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3