field formating

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I have a field in a table that is an 11 character number.
The trouble is I am dropping leading zero's. Is there a way to handle this?
Ex: 0005679790 shows as 5679790 which is not acceptable.
 

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If you have the field formatted as Text instead of a Numeric option, the leading zeroes will not be dropped.
 
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