Hi all.
I have a XL sheet with one column containing tekst and values. It is
partnumbers. Some of these starts with trailing nulls (the number 0). Like
00AB25 or 00056P-SDF.

It is populated from SQL Server 2000 varchar(30) field.

When I save as .csv file XL removes the trailing 0's and the partnumber in
the csv file changes to AB25 and 56P-SDF. Any ideas how to avoid this?


thanx.

geir

If you save as a TEXT file (instead of CSV), using a comma as the delimiter
and double quotes as the text delimiter, it should have an extension of TXT
rather than CSV. Now when you open the file, the Text Import Wizard will come
up and you can specify that this column is to be treated as Text.

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:38:43 +0200, "Geir Holme" wrote:

Hi all.
I have a XL sheet with one column containing tekst and values. It is
partnumbers. Some of these starts with trailing nulls (the number 0). Like
00AB25 or 00056P-SDF.

It is populated from SQL Server 2000 varchar(30) field.

When I save as .csv file XL removes the trailing 0's and the partnumber in
the csv file changes to AB25 and 56P-SDF. Any ideas how to avoid this?


thanx.

geir