Thanks Jim.

I was hoping that I could some how automatically turn off
that automatic parsing. Oh well, I will use your
suggestion. Thanks.



-----Original Message-----
Excel automatically parses CSV files. If you change the
file extension to
something else, like TXT, Excel will instead pop up the
File Import Wizard
where you can make choices. On the third screen (I
think) you can choose
the formatting of each field. You'd pick Text for this
one.

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP


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