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Changing the double quotes to single made it into a left-aligned text field
- that is what an apostrophe in the first position has done since the
earliest Lotus 1-2-3, IIRC. I'm using Excel 2002. When I open a CSV with
the text below, except for single quotes in the second column, the zeroes
are there. But so are the single quotes. If I double-click the cell and
press Enter, the first apostrophe goes away from the cell - it's still
there, however, since it's the alignment character.
I just googled on this and saw a couple things:
1. Use Import External Dat->Import data... to get the Text Import Wizard
2. Change the extension to .txt - then Excel will use the Text Import
Wizard automatically
3. Prepend with an apostrophe - but saving to CSV strips it, and my
experience is, leading apostrophe displays until you do something with the
cell.
Of course, none of this is automatic. With the text extension, the user
still needs to go through a bunch of steps.
I've a feeling that if one saved the result of an iSeries download to CSV,
the leading zeroes would be stripped the next time it is opened.
Oy!
Vern
At 05:42 PM 2/24/2004 -0500, you wrote:
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! :-)
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