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Rodman

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Copying Numeric Text

When copying a numeric text string (i.e., 1234, 5678) from Notepad into a
General formatted cell of Excel the text is reformatted as a number (i.e.,
12,345,678). Is there a formula or macro to stop this and leave the text as
a numeric string?

Thanks In Advance
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