Excel How-to
Keep Leading Zeros in Excel and Google Sheets
Store 001 as text, or pad with TEXT(n,"000"). VALUE and SPLIT turned 001 into 1 in this Google Sheets test; LEN confirmed when the zeros were kept.
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Store 001 as text, or pad with TEXT(n,"000"). VALUE and SPLIT turned 001 into 1 in this Google Sheets test; LEN confirmed when the zeros were kept.
Split a cell on commas or spaces with SPLIT in Google Sheets. TEXTSPLIT was #NAME? here; leading zeros became numbers, and a blocked spill is #REF!.
#REF! means a reference is invalid. Tested: a VLOOKUP column too far right, INDEX off an array, INDIRECT, OFFSET off the grid, and a blocked SPLIT.
Split first, middle and last names in Excel and Google Sheets: first/last-word formulas, comma-style lists, and why titles and suffixes still need a check.