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Formatting Numbers into Text or???!!!
I have a spreadsheet that contains the following data:
Date Account ID 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 1030-0-01 5/14/08 1030-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 When I save it as a .csv file it looks like this: Date Account ID 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 1030-0-01 5/14/2008 1030-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 I have formatted it to Text, Number, and General etc. I have Copy the data into a new spreadsheet, cleared all formatting. Tried this on two different computers. No matter what it keeps changing the 2nd column to a data format. Even though it doesnt do it to the other account ID. I have imported this stuff before and no problem. I am not importing into Excel. |
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Formatting Numbers into Text or???!!!
Is this a duplicate post?
I had answered this yesterday... you need to add ' before your account ids. "klafert" wrote: I have a spreadsheet that contains the following data: Date Account ID 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 1030-0-01 5/14/08 1030-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 When I save it as a .csv file it looks like this: Date Account ID 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 1030-0-01 5/14/2008 1030-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 I have formatted it to Text, Number, and General etc. I have Copy the data into a new spreadsheet, cleared all formatting. Tried this on two different computers. No matter what it keeps changing the 2nd column to a data format. Even though it doesnt do it to the other account ID. I have imported this stuff before and no problem. I am not importing into Excel. |
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Formatting Numbers into Text or???!!!
Yesterday when I was posting they didnt show they went through I guess they
did. Sorry for the duplicate post. ADD??? "Sheeloo" wrote: Is this a duplicate post? I had answered this yesterday... you need to add ' before your account ids. "klafert" wrote: I have a spreadsheet that contains the following data: Date Account ID 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 1030-0-01 5/14/08 1030-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 When I save it as a .csv file it looks like this: Date Account ID 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 1030-0-01 5/14/2008 1030-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 I have formatted it to Text, Number, and General etc. I have Copy the data into a new spreadsheet, cleared all formatting. Tried this on two different computers. No matter what it keeps changing the 2nd column to a data format. Even though it doesnt do it to the other account ID. I have imported this stuff before and no problem. I am not importing into Excel. |
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