Change the extension from .csv to .txt, then the text import wizard will
allow you to specify the format of the relevant columns as text.
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David Biddulph

"Vincent" wrote in message
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I have a csv file with a text field enclosed with " ", the content of the
field is numeric but with leading 0s'.
When I Start MS Excel 2003 and then open the file, the field is converted
to
numeric and causes the leading 0 being dropped.