RE: Exprting data into Excel drops leading zero

What I just did (I've been playing with this almost all day) was to open up
excel & then I went to || Data  ||  Get External Data  || Import Text File
|| & imported the data (I had created a txt flat file first) that way.  Step
3 of 3 of the wizard let me define the "type" of column each one is & I
changed those columns that had numbers & I wanted to retain the leading zero
from General to Text & the leading zeros were there.  No too much more work
but it sure wasn't intuitive.

I'm running Office 2000 so try it.

Thanks - Dennis.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Naughton [mailto:mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 4:42 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Exprting data into Excel drops leading zero

I think it's double quotes, but I don't think that will help. As an
experiment, I created a simple .CSV file in notepad:

"ABCD","000123",123
"DEF","81239",456
"GHI","00543",789

and when I opened it in Excel, the leading zeros were dropped. When I
changed the double quotes to single quotes, they all showed up in the
Excel spreadsheet.

I agree with Adam that if you're using VB you can do a lot of formatting
ahead of time, but in my experience doing straight downloads into Excel
will drop leading zeros from text fields (some of our part numbers have
leading zeros, and this has been a real pita). The only think I've seen
that works is the HTML trick someone else pointed to (in the archives),
but of course that means doing a lot of formatting of the data before it
gets to Excel.

If there's a better answer to this, I'd sure like to know it! :-)



PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>Do I remember correctly that in a csv format the text fields are enclosed
>in
>double or single quotes to distinguish them from numeric fields?
>
>
>Thanks - Dennis.



Mike Naughton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Judd Wire, Inc.
124 Turnpike Road
Turners Falls, MA  01376
413-863-4357 x444
mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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