Re: AS400 to EXCEL

["Richard B Baird" <rbaird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just found out a way this morning to not lose your leading zeros.  It
takes a little more work, but it does work.

change the file extention (or create it that way) to .txt and open the file
from inside excel.  it walks you through the import wizard - change to
'delimited', change the delimeter to ',' and on the next screen, change the
data type of the numbers from 'general' to 'text'.

this will preserve your leading zeros.  not optimal, but doable.

Rick
--------original message---------
Booth,

>Is this also true if the CSV fields are all enclosed in quotes?  Not
>apostrophes but quotation marks.

In Excel, it still considers it a numeric value and drops the leading zeros
despite the presence of the quotation marks.  Silly, but true.

>"John Smith","001234"

Not in Excel it doesn't.  The second cell will be right-adjusted and the
value
displayed will be simply 1234.  Even applying a cell format of "text" at
that
point will leave it as 1234 (albeit now left-justified).  So the leading
zeros
are lost during the file open / import process.

Doug