If you are using Excel 2002 or later when you copy and paste from
notepad, a little icon should appear with a paste symbol. If you click
on this you can select text import wizard with the options:

Step 1. Delimited. Next
Step 2. Tab delimiter. Next
Step 3. Select the column containing the entry 5E094 and choose text as
the column data format. Then click finish


T Miller wrote:

bj,

In the cell it looks like this 5.00E+94, what it should be is 5E094. I
tried the single quote but that did not change anything, and when I try to
make it text or a number it stays the same..... I know there is a way to fix
this.
--
Thomas


"bj" wrote:

the simplest method is to enter a single quote in front. '5E094
If there arer a lot of them, YOu might write a macro to look for large
numbers and convert them to the text format you want.

"T Miller" wrote:

Got a small problem, not sure how to fix it.

If I have this in a cell 5E+94, and it is suppose to be this 5E094, how do I
fix that? The file came from notepad and I copy and pasted it into excel and
then did text to columns. Is there something else there I should have done?

--
Thomas