Add Leading Zero in Excel

If you want to add leading zero's in your excel column so that your value become like following

123 > 0123
9827 > 09827
0000 > 0000

1. Select the column on which you want to apply this setting, and click Ctrl + 1

This will open Format Cell's dialog box

2. For the Category Select Custom

Now lets assume you need to enter 01234

3. So in type column just type 000#, and click on OK

That's it now if you enter 01234 in that column excel will accept it, and will not remove leading zero
I hope it was informative for you and I would like to thank you for reading.