Leading Zeros

LisaMass1970

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Hello, I'm using Excel 2016. I need to change numbers in the coulmns to include leading zeros. So 1 will become 001, 2 will become 002, etc. Then I want to save it as a txt file. I changed my column to text and made sure in the number section it says text. When I do a replace from 1 to 001, it shows how many changes but doesn't save it or show the changes in the sheet. Any ideas what I'm missing?

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You could also just use a custom format of 000 and when you save the file as a CSV, it saves the display version of the value.
 
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