"'Mike'" wrote in message
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"David (Normandy)" wrote in message
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"Frank Booth Snr" wrote in message
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:24:00 +0100, "'Mike'" wrote
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I wish to put numbers in a cell which commence with a '0'. For example
067
but when I go to the next cell, the number reverts to just 67.

I can get over it by putting an 'O' (capital o), but this then does not
Data Sort properly.

Can anyone help please?


'067 will show as 067.

It will however be text, not a number.

As the guy said you simply type a single apostrophe before the number
you wish to format as text. Eg '456.88. No need to bother with format
menus.

Strongly disagree. The problems with just using a single apostrophe to
force numbers to be text occur when you try to sort the column. Things
end up in the wrong place as you are mixing numbers and text. It can also
lead to computational errors depending on how complex the spreadsheet is.

David.


David in that column, there will only be numbers, no text and the 0 will
be operational at the beginning of the number, i.e. 067. Take that the
column will have for example 087, 001, 093, 43, 23, 77, etc, I feel that
as there is no text I will not have a problem .............. I hope :-))

Your comments 'before' I plough tooooooooo much in would be appreciated,
ALSO, what tests would you recommend to 'sort' my numbers given that Col 1
will be text, col 2 will be text, col 3 will be the numbers ..... as text
to pick up the 0, and the rest text as in names etc.? I would wish to
produce tables/lists in different sequences of Col 1, then col 3 numbers
then other cols as text OR dates.

Massive amount of info to be fed in and I don't wish to have to go through
it all again :-))

(I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew. Maybe that is why the
book has never been published!!!!)

Kind regards

Mike

Mike, if you want to display 'numbers' that have leading zeros then they are
not actually numbers they are text. Numbers are something you can do
calculations on - add up, multiply etc. I don't think you want to do any
calculations with these?

1. Select the entire column (click the column letter at the top to highlight
the entire column).
2. Click Format Cells
3. Click the Number tab
4. Click the category 'text'

Job done. You can type the numbers in without having to type a single quote
in front of each one.

David.