I cannot reproduce this when I make regional setting German (Austria) to get
comma for decimal maker. My TXT file opens in XL2007 the same as in XL2003 -
as numbers
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"tedmi" wrote in message
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Regional option is set to a locale where decimal symbol is the comma. When
importing text data that has numbers with periods, XL '02 and '03
automatically convert the periods to commas, but '07 does not - as a
result,
the import is treated as text. Any workaround?
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