Hello,

We have data that is downloaded to a .xls file from a SAP application.
The field in question is a 30 character field that contains all
numeric data. The problem is when opened in Excel the format of the
data is change to scientific notation and the right 7 characters are
changed to zeros. The character string should be
9611019049526870545643 but in Excel it appears as 9.61102e+21 and
formated as a general number. When converted to a displayable number
it converts to 9611019049526870000000. I tried saving the file rather
than opening it into Excel and found the character string did contain
all the numbers, when opening it in Notepad it appears as
<td class='SAPBExSt' style=" " 9611019049526870545643 </td.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Rick