Re: AS400 to EXCEL

However Doug, how does one put the single quotes into the CSV file that 
you've created with CPYTOPCD without a program and before loading it into 
Excel or 1-2-3 destroy's the leading zeros?

Rob Berendt
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Mike,

>As soon as you attempt to export a
>file with New Jersey zip codes in it, you will see that Excel will not 
keep
>the leading zeros of a CSV file, no matter what you do.  Believe me, I've
>tried.

Sure it will.  Going back to the days of Lotus 1-2-3, you can control the
formatting of a cell by a leading character.  Place a single apostrophe in 
front
of the text you enter into a cell and it becomes a left-aligned text entry 
even
if the entire data portion are digits. 

Try it when keying in Excel (or Lotus 1-2-3 <g>) and you'll see what I 
mean.
You should see the little green triangle in the upper left corner of the 
cell,
signifying it is a text formatted cell.  It also works on importing text 
from a
CSV, as best I can recall.

Lotus had other leading characters which were less commonly used, such as 
a
double quote for a right-aligned text entry, or a caret (^) for a 
center-aligned
text entry.  However, Excel won't honor these unless you go to menu Tools 
->
Options, Transition tab, and check "Transition navigation keys".

It honors a leading single quote (') either way.  Sometimes you just have 
to
resurrect techniques from 20 years ago!  (Or be old enough to know about
them...)

Doug
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