My suggestion: Format ALL of your SCC codes as "00000000000000", then you
won't have to worry about it.
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~Anne Troy
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> Hi,
>
> I am having a difficulty that has been bugging me for some time.
>
> I have 14 digits SCC codes. Some start with 1-9, some start with 0's.
> Numbers stating with 0's have to be set up as text or the 0 disappears.
> Whenever I set up a number as text and I do a vlookup, those numbers
> are not being recognized as matching by the vlookup function. My
> question is: "how can I have a 14 digit number displaying zeros in
> front and still be able to compare it to another spreadsheet with the
> same number using the vlookup function. Please help.
>
>
>
> Mike
>
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