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RE: Using Excel spreadsheet data on the AS/400

  • Subject: RE: Using Excel spreadsheet data on the AS/400
  • From: "Sean Porterfield" <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:10:39 -0500
  • Importance: Normal
 
I use a single apostrophe to force text in Excel.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Wright

One other hint (Most probably know this one):
To force excel to treat a numeric entry as text, type a single colon before
the entry...  The colon disappears, and the number is treated as text.

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