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Default Importing data numbers

HI kevin, thanks for that.
I actually note its a csv file will that work the same?


"Kevin B" wrote:

Open the text file from Excel and and when defining the columns to import
designate of large numbers as text.
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Kevin Backmann


"JB" wrote:

I'm having a problem when inmporting numbers into excel from a text file.
I'm finding that excel is concverting the number into a scientific format,
which once imported I cant convert back.
Is tehre any way of changing a setting so that the numbers dont get truncated?