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how to tell excel to read numeric field as character fr a csv
Do it once manually, while recording a macro.
See
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm
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Kind regards,
Niek Otten
"Ang Kah Huat" wrote in message
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hi,
Thanks, is it possible to do it without any human interface ? can the user
open the file and see the result correctly ? cause it have a lot of fields
to
do so and this will be a daily file. we need to automate it.
rgds
Huat
"Niek Otten" wrote:
Change the file extension to TXT and import as a text file.
That will give you options per field
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Kind regards,
Niek Otten
"Ang Kah Huat" wrote in message
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hi,
i have a csv file with some fields, one of the field which i want it
to
be
a character field, but the field contain only numeric, when excel open
the
file, it became numeric, this may cause problem, cause the field is a
credit
card number (e.g 1234567812345678 ), the excel will show 1.23457E+15,
and
the
actual value became 1234567812345670, that is totally wrong.
how can i do it without open the file, do some changes and save the
file
again ?
rgds
Huat
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