Re: AS400 to EXCEL

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was just wondering...
 
what if the first record had the column heading names in it?  That'd be easy
to program.  Would Excel then decide that all the columns are character, and
move numbers in as text? 
 
 
 
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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 1:21:07 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: AS400 to EXCEL
 
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