Solved Microsoft Excel won't let me keep a leading 0 in a cell.

[atikovi]

I keep the info of twenty some bank accounts on a spreadsheet with columns for interest rate, bank name, routing number, account number, username, password, balance, etc. I added a new row for a new bank which has a routing number of 011303097, but after I enter that into the cell, it drops the leading 0. I have other entries with routing numbers that start with 0 and they are all there. Why won't it stay in this cell?

 

[mrjimphelps]

You need to set the format on all of these cells to Text. This will allow a leading zero.

If after setting the format to Text, some cells still have the issue, retype the data in those cells. The problem is, if there is already data in the cell, and that data is in a number format, it will retain its format. Only newly-typed data gets the new format.

 

[atikovi]

Ahh text, thank you. Don't know how I missed that.