Pages, the leading 0 disappears in my studentnumbers

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Pages, the leading 0 disappears in my studentnumbers

I made a table with 3 columns and 20 rows. in one column I have to put studentnumbers in. All numbers start with a 0 (zero). If I put the number in ;for instance 0753836 if I got to the next column the 0 (zero) disappears. There are no rules in the cells.
Does anybody has any idea what this Uri Geller trick is?
Thanks.

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Posted on Jan 30, 2008 6:13 AM

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Answer 1

DennisG

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Jan 30, 2008 6:24 AM in response to Armin De Hooge

Armin,

Just a guess here: Pages doesn't view a number beginning with zero to be a legal number, and "corrects" it. There's a fix, though, assuming this number isn't part of a formula: highlight the affected cells (or the entire table), and click on the Table inspector > Format > Cell Format > Text. Now your number will be left alone to think about its shortcomings.

-Dennis

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Answer 2

Jan 30, 2008 6:41 AM in response to DennisG

Dennis,

That sure did the trick, thank you also on behalf of my students.

Armin.

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