Displaying Leading Zeros

Having recently switched to Mac and trying to embrace the iWork applications I've struggled with something that I really couldn't find help with. Since I think this is a relatively common need I am posting this message in the event others need to present a Numbers cell that has leading zeros.
The way I have found to create leading zeros in numbers is by using the CONCATENATE and RIGHT functions. Say for example you have zip codes stored in numeric format (perhaps pulled in from a database) but need them to display in a cell properly. The zip code for Salem, NH is 03079. If you have the value 3079 stored you need that leading zero added.
Assuming 3079 is stored in A1 you could add the following formula into an adjoining field:
=RIGHT(CONCATENATE("00000",A1),5)
CONCATENATE turns A1 into a string ("000003079") and RIGHT grabs the 5 right-most characters from that string.
If someone else has a better way of handling this please do comment.

DRAlison wrote:
Having recently switched to Mac and trying to embrace the iWork applications I've struggled with something that I really couldn't find help with.
Funny comment, this 'question' was asked and responded many times in this forum.
Here are some links:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8278267
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6639837
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6126095
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6856405
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7474228
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5270661
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9394800
grabbed with a simple search in the existing threads using the keystring "leading AND zero"
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 30 juin 2009 16:48:06)

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