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Determine the length of a string and padd with leading zeros

Asked by mreid3847 in Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software, Spreadsheet Software

Tags: Microsoft, Excel, 2003

Hello all,

Excel is handling text data as numeric and dropping the leading zeros.

The problem I am having I have a column in Excel 2003 that is a max size of 7 characters.  The data is stored in its native source as text.  And through automation the data is sent from its data source and transformed into an xls file.  Unfortunately, I don't have an option from the sending source for any file type but Excel so I can't get it in a text file or a csv, otherwise I would handle it when bringing it into Excel through a manual process.

However, when the data imports into Excel it is being handled as a numeric value and the leading zeros are being dropped.

Example :
Source                  
0000116
Excel
116

Is it possible to check the length of the string and if it is less than 7 pad it with leading zeros?  I would need to apply this to the entire column.

I have very weak Excel skills and know next to nothing about functions.  Thanks in advance for assistance.
 
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