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Formatting Numbes as Text!!!!
I have a spreadsheet that contains the following data:
Date Account ID 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 1030-0-01 5/14/08 1030-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 When I save it as a .csv file it looks like this: Date Account ID 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 1030-0-01 5/14/2008 1030-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 I have formatted it to Text, Number, and General etc. I have Copy the data into a new spreadsheet, cleared all formatting. Tried this on two different computers. No matter what it keeps changing the 2nd column to a data format. Even though it doesnt do it to the other account ID. I have imported this stuff before and no problem. I am not importing into Excel. |
Formatting Numbes as Text!!!!
Did you reopen the CSV using excel or NotePad?
I saw this in a text editor: 05/14/08,5280-3-01 05/14/08,5280-3-01 05/14/08,5280-3-01 05/14/08,5280-3-01 05/14/08,5280-3-01 05/14/08,5280-3-01 05/14/08,1030-0-01 05/14/08,1030-0-01 05/14/08,2101-0-01 05/14/08,2101-0-01 05/14/08,2101-0-01 05/14/08,2101-0-01 05/14/08,2101-0-01 05/14/08,2101-0-01 05/14/08,2101-0-01 05/14/08,2101-0-01 If you reopen the CSV file in excel, then excel will treat the data however it wants. klafert wrote: I have a spreadsheet that contains the following data: Date Account ID 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 5280-3-01 5/14/08 1030-0-01 5/14/08 1030-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 5/14/08 2101-0-01 When I save it as a .csv file it looks like this: Date Account ID 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 3/1/5280 5/14/2008 1030-0-01 5/14/2008 1030-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 5/14/2008 2101-0-01 I have formatted it to Text, Number, and General etc. I have Copy the data into a new spreadsheet, cleared all formatting. Tried this on two different computers. No matter what it keeps changing the 2nd column to a data format. Even though it doesnt do it to the other account ID. I have imported this stuff before and no problem. I am not importing into Excel. -- Dave Peterson |
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