Do you have control of how the text file gets made? If so specify a single
quote in front of this field then Excel will read text.
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Bernard V Liengme
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"Clark G." wrote in message
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I need to turn-off a function in Excel that causes text data to be
converted
to numbers in Scientific Notation form. I don't want my text file that
contains text to be automatically converted. Example: 83E2 will be
converted to 8.30+E3. I want it to open with 83E2 only.
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