'copy&paste' web tabular data into excel
Hi All, I have data that should always be treated as text. From a web page I 'copy&paste' bunch of rows. Some of the cells have data that looks like this '23:59' or 24:01' basically mm:ss format. I'm only interested in this as text. What happens '23:59' is displayed as is in the excel cell but on the other paste brings it in as '24:01:00' instead of '24:01'. I tried pre-defining that column as text but the 'paste' overrides it and brings it in as some date/time field. How to overcome this? Thanks so much. -- GottaRun ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GottaRun's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=31297 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=519189 |
'copy&paste' web tabular data into excel
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message ... Hi All, I have data that should always be treated as text. From a web page I 'copy&paste' bunch of rows. Some of the cells have data that looks like this '23:59' or 24:01' basically mm:ss format. I'm only interested in this as text. What happens '23:59' is displayed as is in the excel cell but on the other paste brings it in as '24:01:00' instead of '24:01'. I tried pre-defining that column as text but the 'paste' overrides it and brings it in as some date/time field. How to overcome this? Paste Special? -- David Biddulph |
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