Hi,
I have just written a utility that "might" be able to do
whaat you want.

EasyText_Rev1.xls

http://www.geocities.com/excelmarksway

When you open the xls file, Click the picture to start the
form.

Click the open button, then select your file. The contents
of your file is loaded into a text box.

Another button can insert those contents into a cell in
the worksheet. Otherwise you can click the "Select All"
label, "Copy All Text", then hide EasyText, then select a
cell in the worksheet and ctr+v, or use your worksheet
paste. This will paste the contents to the worksheet, not
just the cell (depends if carriage returns are used in the
contents).


- Mark

- Mark



-----Original Message-----
Hello. I have an application that we export database
data to an XML file.
We use an xsl style sheet to convert that to .html that
the application or a
web page can use to display to the user. An option we
allow for the users is
to convert the html document to excel for editing or
converting to PDF. One
issue we have is that the document can contain text in
the form of 05/12 or
0512 that we need to stay as text.

In the html document they are correct, however, excel
turns them into dates
or numbers. I've tried putting the ' character in front
of the string.
However, when excel gets the html, it puts it in
(ex: '05/12) and doesn't
hide the ' character until the cell is clicked on and OKd
(but this is not an
option as there are too many cells). I was wondering if
there was some tag I
could put in the html document (via the style sheet) that
would tell excel to
not format the numbers. Or if there was something I
could put in the html
that would tell excel to turn off all formatting.

Excel 2002
Windows XP

Thanks. And if anyone needs more info let me know.

nellie.
.