Combining Numbers that Have Leading Zeros

[Ravee Mathi Sundar]

Hi,
Thank you very much for letting me know about TEXT function. It was very helpful in solving one of main problem in displaying leading zeros using ASP in excel. Thanks again.

Cheers,
Ravee

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Problem:

Column A (List1) is formatted to display a leading zero before each number. That is, \"1\" is displayed as \"01\", \"2\" as \"02\", and so on.
The following formula was created to concatenate the numbers from List1 into one string:
=A2&A3&A4&A5
However, an incorrect result of \"1234\" is returned.
How can we modify the formula to honor the leading zeros?

Solution:

Use the TEXT function as shown in the following formula:
=TEXT(A2,\"00\")&TEXT(A3,\"00\")&TEXT(A4,\"00\")&TEXT(A5,\"00\")