From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/19/26 00:49, Robert Woodward wrote:   
   > In article <10kjkb5$3p7to$15@dont-email.me>,   
   >   Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:35:24 -0500, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> ... some movie promotion firm had software that treated ZIP codes as   
   >>> numbers, but then dropped leading '0's from those numbers.   
   >>   
   >> Microsoft Excel user!   
   >   
   > I ran into a similar problem myself with Excel; I entered those numbers   
   > as text to fix it.   
   >   
   I have to do that with ISBNs in my spreadsheet, which is where Excel   
   would beat LibreOffice--in Excel a leading single quote doesn't display   
   but means "what follows is text", while in LibreOffice I have to   
   constantly be formatting the cells.   
      
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