I cannot find an answer to this problem anywhere, perhaps someone here can
help.
I have 2 columns of data that I pulled from my proprietary database using
ODBC. The first column is part numbers, and the second is a list price for
the part. The part numbers are a mix of numbers, letters, and some dashes.
I am saving this list to a .csv, uploading it to my web server, and then
logging in to my webserver and importing the data from the .csv to a mysql
database.
The problem is coming in when I have part numbers that start with zero. An
example would be 010888. The zero gets dropped off when I save it as a .csv.
I figured I could convert it to text and it would be fine but when I convert
it to text in excel it drops the zero too. A part number like 010888L is
fine because its treated like text and the zero remains through any
conversion.

Please help.. I have some 9000 part numbers that I need to save to a .csv
and 300 of them start with zero.