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Format - Please Help!!
I have two formats that come to me that I cannot vlookup due to the
formatting. Is there a quick fix for formatting these files as text? For example, the format is 01001 but when I change it to a number it removes the 0. I add a column to add back the 0 and the column is converted back to text which will not allow my vlookup to work. I think it is due to the extraction of from the database. Please help! I am driving myself nutts!!! I also have tried copying the information into a new workbook and still that same problem. Help. |
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Format - Please Help!!
Hi Nikki,
Highlight the column that have the 01001, go to Data, Text to Columns Delimited, next, next, in this screen be sure you check Text in the left upper corner, the default is General, in that way you will not loose the 0. "Nikki" wrote: I have two formats that come to me that I cannot vlookup due to the formatting. Is there a quick fix for formatting these files as text? For example, the format is 01001 but when I change it to a number it removes the 0. I add a column to add back the 0 and the column is converted back to text which will not allow my vlookup to work. I think it is due to the extraction of from the database. Please help! I am driving myself nutts!!! I also have tried copying the information into a new workbook and still that same problem. Help. |
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I still lost the 0. Any other suggestions. This file is really a pain for me
today :o).... "Eduardo" wrote: Hi Nikki, Highlight the column that have the 01001, go to Data, Text to Columns Delimited, next, next, in this screen be sure you check Text in the left upper corner, the default is General, in that way you will not loose the 0. "Nikki" wrote: I have two formats that come to me that I cannot vlookup due to the formatting. Is there a quick fix for formatting these files as text? For example, the format is 01001 but when I change it to a number it removes the 0. I add a column to add back the 0 and the column is converted back to text which will not allow my vlookup to work. I think it is due to the extraction of from the database. Please help! I am driving myself nutts!!! I also have tried copying the information into a new workbook and still that same problem. Help. |
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Format - Please Help!!
Custom Format Format cell as: 00000
"Nikki" wrote: I still lost the 0. Any other suggestions. This file is really a pain for me today :o).... "Eduardo" wrote: Hi Nikki, Highlight the column that have the 01001, go to Data, Text to Columns Delimited, next, next, in this screen be sure you check Text in the left upper corner, the default is General, in that way you will not loose the 0. "Nikki" wrote: I have two formats that come to me that I cannot vlookup due to the formatting. Is there a quick fix for formatting these files as text? For example, the format is 01001 but when I change it to a number it removes the 0. I add a column to add back the 0 and the column is converted back to text which will not allow my vlookup to work. I think it is due to the extraction of from the database. Please help! I am driving myself nutts!!! I also have tried copying the information into a new workbook and still that same problem. Help. |
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Format - Please Help!!
Thank you so much.
"Teethless mama" wrote: Custom Format Format cell as: 00000 "Nikki" wrote: I still lost the 0. Any other suggestions. This file is really a pain for me today :o).... "Eduardo" wrote: Hi Nikki, Highlight the column that have the 01001, go to Data, Text to Columns Delimited, next, next, in this screen be sure you check Text in the left upper corner, the default is General, in that way you will not loose the 0. "Nikki" wrote: I have two formats that come to me that I cannot vlookup due to the formatting. Is there a quick fix for formatting these files as text? For example, the format is 01001 but when I change it to a number it removes the 0. I add a column to add back the 0 and the column is converted back to text which will not allow my vlookup to work. I think it is due to the extraction of from the database. Please help! I am driving myself nutts!!! I also have tried copying the information into a new workbook and still that same problem. Help. |
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