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Fred Smith[_4_] Fred Smith[_4_] is offline
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Default Preserving "trailing" zeros from csv file

The only way to preserve zeros after the decimal point is to convert the
number to text before saving the CSV.

Regards,
Fred

"hgarrison" wrote in message
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Thanks. When I save the file as .csv, close the file, and reopen it,
Excel
still drops the trailing zeros. I'm hoping there is some setting or
default
that I can change to prevent Excel from doing this.

"David Biddulph" wrote:

Import the file as text.
Data/ Import External Data (or rename the .csv as .txt and open), and
specify the columns as Text.
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David Biddulph

hgarrison wrote:
When opeing a csv file in Excel, Excel drops any zero-value decimal
points. E.g. 12500.00 becomes 12500

When I open the file in Word, the zero-value decimal points are there.

I can't find where I can change Excel's settings to prevent this from
happening.

Any ideas?