I don't care how it stores it but if I've input 01234 either manually or via a CSV import etc. I do expect it to remember that there was a 0 at the beginning. E

I don't care how it stores it but if I've input 01234 either manually or via a CSV import etc. I do expect it to remember that there was a 0 at the beginning. Excel's lossy data type conversion has caused more problems than I care to remember over the years. One of them caused a significant sum of money to be deposited in the wrong bank account once.