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Old 01-31-07, 11:37
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Hello, I am trying to import a csv file into Excel.

One of my records has the ID: "11e0001"

However, when this is imported, it automatically gets converted to 1.10E+02.

I have no idea why, and I have no idea how to resolve it.

Please advise.

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Old 01-31-07, 12:55
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Is that ID field supposed to be numeric? Excel is trying to import it
as a number. 11e0001=1.10e+02=110
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Old 01-31-07, 15:02
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It's actually a TEXT. Even if it has a text qualifier (double quotes), it still converts it to a number, even though I don't want it too.

I can't even manually enter the value into the cell, because it causes the same problem!

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Old 01-31-07, 15:11
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When using the wizard to import the csv file, change the data type for that column to Text. That will override Excel's desire to make that a number column.
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