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Formatting Numbes to 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 to Text
I put your data into a file - I had to format column B as text before
entering values like 5280-30-01 Saved the file as CSV In Notepad (also Wordpad and Word) all the second values appeared correctly ( 5280-30-01) but the first few converted to dates when I open it in Excel What app are you using to open the file? What Excel version? best wishes -- Bernard Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP http://people.stfx.ca/bliengme "ComputerLady143" wrote in message ... 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. |
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