Yes, usually in the Importing Utility.............how are you bringing the
data in to Excel?.......If through MSQuery you can just follow the menus and
should see the option to format each field.

Vaya Con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



" wrote:

On May 16, 9:38 am, CLR wrote:
If you don't have to do any math on the figures, you might try importing that
column as TEXT, to get it to display all the numbers....

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



" wrote:
Hello,

We have data that is downloaded to a .xls file from a SAP application.
The field in question is a 30 character field that contains all
numeric data. The problem is when opened in Excel the format of the
data is change to scientific notation and the right 7 characters are
changed to zeros. The character string should be
9611019049526870545643 but in Excel it appears as 9.61102e+21 and
formated as a general number. When converted to a displayable number
it converts to 9611019049526870000000. I tried saving the file rather
than opening it into Excel and found the character string did contain
all the numbers, when opening it in Notepad it appears as
<td class='SAPBExSt' style=" " 9611019049526870545643 </td.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,

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Chuck,

Thank you for your response. Is there a way to specify the field's
import format?

Thanks,

RIck