Leading Zeros in Zip Code

I frequently export address information from a database to a tab-delimited text file and then import it into Numbers. However, some zip codes have leading zeros (i.e., "00644"). When I import this file into Numbers the zip codes with leading zeros lose their zeros (i.e., the field looks like ... "644").
If I format the field after the import as "Text," it doesn't resolve the problem.
How do I retain these zeros?

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Yvan only discusses Apple products but I look for the best, cheapest solution I can find. In this case it's the free NeoOffice (I would guess Open Office would be the same).
I do what we are supposed to do on this forum.
excerprt from Terms of Use:
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Why being able to format zip codes (when probably a quarter of the US population has a zip code that starts with a leading zero)
As 0 is one digit among ten, my guess is that the real percentage is about 10%
is considered beyond the "eighty percent" rule that Yvan cites often, I don't understand, but the solutions he proposes aren't very realistic for spreadsheets created frequently.
The given soluce may be "not realistic" but it is used since 1990 by AppleWorks's users.
But a Numbers's user may refuse to apply the given workarounds and wait for enhancements.
For some of them he will have to wait until iWork'09, for others for iWork'10 …
I think that helpers are here to give workarounds for today, not to give false hopes.
Here is an excerpt of Apple Human Interface Guidelines
+Apply the 80 Percent Solution+
+During the design process, if you discover problems with your product design, you might consider applying the 80 percent solution‚ that is, designing your software to meet the needs of at least 80 percent of your users. This type of design typically favors simpler, more elegant approaches to problems.+
+If you try to design for the 20 percent of your target audience who are power users, your design may not be usable by the other 80 percent of users. Even though that smaller group of power users is likely to have good ideas for features, the majority of your user base may not think in the same way. Involving a broad range of users in your design process can help you find the 80 percent solution.+
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 19 février 2008 14:54:36)

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