On Jan 18, 10:35*am, Dave Peterson wrote:
Don't open the .csv file in excel to check it.

Use NotePad--or some other text editor.

You'll find that the leading zeros are there.

Excel will remove them when you reopen the .csv file--not when excel saves it.

wrote:

I've read all the post and blogs on csv files dropping leading zero's
and still haven't found a solution. I have Excel 2002 and when I save
file as .csv it drops the leading zero. I've tried formatting cells as
text before saving as csv, importing data with cells set as text,
under custom format my version of evcel doesn't have an option for
00000 or #0000. I was told that I need to upgrade to a newer version
of excel. Any help would be greatly appriciated..

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Dave Peterson

Okay, If I open the csv the zero is gone. If I open the file in
notepad the zero is present. Does that mean if I upload the csv file
to my database that the number will be whole and the zero present?

Thanks Dave..