RE: Using Excel spreadsheet data on the AS/400

Aposthrophe is what I meant :)

Oops

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Sean Porterfield
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 2:11 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Using Excel spreadsheet data on the AS/400


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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