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Eric Delong, your suggestion on the = is news to me. Wow. Gotta try
it. Thanks


"data","morestuff",1234.56,="737039","andsoforth",.....

The equal preceeding the quoted value will force it to be stored in
excel as a character string.
This works for all those troublesome values, like the US zip code or
phone number, that often have > leading zeros stripped by excel...

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