ps. If you must open the file in excel, then rename it to .txt and then use
File|Open. You'll be able to specify each field as text and excel won't convert
them to numbers.

Or you could use:
Data|Import external data|
(in xl2003 menus)

And you'll see the same wizard.

Rob wrote:

Hello,

these figures are roomnumbers of an officebuilding.

1E001
1E010
1E011
1E013
1E016
1E017
1E023

So they are NOT exponentials.

While exporting these to a .csv file they are changed into

1,00E+01
1,00E+10
1,00E+11
1,00E+13
1,00E+16
1,00E+17
1,00E+23

I tried to write the number in text-formatted cells but even than I get the
same results.
Anyone who knows a workaraound?

Rob

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Dave Peterson