Removing starting zeros

I'm building tables for an e-commerce site. Exporting them to CSV. Works great, except for one thing. Some article numbers start with a 0 and for some reason, numbers has decided to remove all starting 0. And that is driving me up a tree. I need them still there or they start clashing with other supplyers article numbers.
I've tried custom cell format but it doesn't help.
Any ideas are much appreciated.

Hi There
If you wish to store the values with leading zeros as a number and without the quotes you can by creating a custom cell format with a leading zero. To do this you need to go into the cells tab in the inspector window (View menu >> Show Inspector if it isn't already shown), in the drop down box under "Cell Format" click custom... You will be presented with a window, Name the custom format to something useful and then add a 0 to the second field before the blue circle that is surrounding the hashes, the field should look like this 0#,### clicking on the arrow next to the hashes will give you further formatting options for the cell. You can add extra conditions by clicking the plus inside the circle at the left of the text box. Once you are finished customising the format click OK.
Now select the fields you wish to add leading zeros to (you can select multiple cells in different locations by holding down the command key). Go back into the inspector window and select the custom cell format that you just created. Unfortunately this will only apply to the current document.
However, if you wish for all new documents to have the leading zero cell format available then start a new blank document, create the cell format then change the cell that you used to create it back to automatic (this prevents that cell from having a leading zero when used in new documents) save the new document as a template (File >> Save as Template...) If you save the template in the default location then it will be available in the My Templates section of the Template Chooser.
Hope this helps
J.C

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