Typing telephone numbers

[Monica]

I want to do a database of phone numbers. When I type number in the 'field'
and type the number I want , when I go to view the first digit ie: 01234 (the
0) gets knocked off. How can I prevent this please?

 

[fredg]

I want to do a database of phone numbers. When I type number in the 'field'
and type the number I want , when I go to view the first digit ie: 01234 (the
0) gets knocked off. How can I prevent this please?

Change the field's datatype from Number to Text.
Number datatypes do not display any leading zeros.
Text datatypes do.