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Why does the zero vanish?
Short answer. Excel treats the entry as a number.
Which format keeps it?
Text.
Keep leading zeros
| General format drops leading zeros |
| Format the cell as Text first |
| Or type an apostrophe: '0987 |
Remember
| Formatting changes the look |
| Text keeps leading zeros |
You type PIN 0987, and the zero vanishes. Why? Here is why. General format drops the zero. Format the cell as Text first. Or type an apostrophe first. Remember. Formatting changes the look only. Text keeps the zero.
This clip is from the full lesson: Formatting cells, numbers and text — 6 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
Useful for: NIOS Senior Secondary Data Entry Operations (336)
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