How to prevent Excel from deleting leading zeros?

L

ljCharlie

I have exported some data off my phpMyAdmin with one field containin
leading zeros. As soon as I open in MS Excel, the leading zeros ar
stripped off. How do I prevent this from happening
 
P

Peo Sjoblom

Save the export as text, then open text file from excel and the text import
wizard will start, then it step 3 you can set import to text under column
data format.
 

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