>That's why I said "viewed", not "stored". It's still whatever type value Excel thinks it is. If you try to view a value like "000123", Excel tries to help you out by converting it to a number and then you'd see "123", not "000123" unless you format the cell using the "@".
Oh, now I see. Thank you.
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