Leading zeros
I am importing data into Excel from an online database. The values I am
importing are 9 digit numbers and many contain a zero as the leftmost digit. Whenerver I copy the data into excel it drops any leading zeros even though I've formatted that column as text. How can I get Excel to retain the original number format? |
It is possible that your import is over-riding the text formatting.
After importing, select the cells (or rows or columns) then: Format Cells Custom 000000000 This format will always display all nine digits and retain all leading zeros. -- Gary's Student "LeePotts" wrote: I am importing data into Excel from an online database. The values I am importing are 9 digit numbers and many contain a zero as the leftmost digit. Whenerver I copy the data into excel it drops any leading zeros even though I've formatted that column as text. How can I get Excel to retain the original number format? |
By my experiences nohow. Therefore I wrote a macro that re-transform such
numbers to their original format: Sub coltransform(transcol, rngstart, rngend, helpcol, formcode) coldistance = Range(helpcol & 1).Column - Range(transcol & 1).Column Range(transcol & rngstart & ":" & transcol & rngend).NumberFormat = "@" Range(helpcol & rngstart).FormulaR1C1 = "=TEXT(RC[-" & coldistance & "]," & " """ & formcode & """) " Range(helpcol & rngstart & ":" & helpcol & rngend).Select Selection.FillDown Selection.Copy Range(transcol & rngstart & ":" & transcol & rngend).Select Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlValues, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks:= _ False, Transpose:=False Application.CutCopyMode = False Range(helpcol & rngstart & ":" & helpcol & rngend).ClearContents End Sub In your case the calling is this: Call coltransform("A", 1, 100, "B", "000000000") where the first four arguments are examples, the fourth is the real format code for 9 digit numbers or rather 9 character long strings containing only digits. There is another benefit of using this sub: imported texts don't behave normally in operations like Autofilter, Sorting, etc. This sub resolves this problem too. I hope it will be useful! Regards, Stefi €˛LeePotts€¯ ezt Ć*rta: I am importing data into Excel from an online database. The values I am importing are 9 digit numbers and many contain a zero as the leftmost digit. Whenerver I copy the data into excel it drops any leading zeros even though I've formatted that column as text. How can I get Excel to retain the original number format? |
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