Excel new england zip codes

The problem is that Excel is not very good at preserving data types. A five digit ZIP code which despite the postal service introducing nine digit ones with a dash between the 5th and 6th digit people still generally use looks like an integer to Excel.

Excel treats it as such and eliminates any zeros in the front. However, it is not an integer, it is a code. Specifically, it is a postal code, which you want to use to store as a text string. However, Excel assumes that it is an integer and gives you A good way of thinking about this is to look at the Postal Codes from other countries, which is what a ZIP Code really is.

Someone just gave you an Excel workbook where one of the columns is ZIP codes and many of them are 4 instead of 5 digits. You no longer have the original text file and are stuck with the workbook. The problem is that Excel is not very good at preserving data types. A five digit ZIP code which despite the postal service introducing nine digit ones with a dash between the 5th and 6th digit people still generally use looks like an integer to Excel.

Excel treats it as such and eliminates any zeros in the front. However, it is not an integer, it is a code. Specifically, it is a postal code, which you want to use to store as a text string.

However, Excel assumes that it is an integer and gives you There is a VBA that can extract postcodes from full addresses quickly in Excel. Then click Run button and select the range you want to extract zip codes only from. See screenshot:. Click OK , you can see the only the zip codes are reserved in the range. Note: The other languages of the website are Google-translated. Back to English.

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