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Old 10 February 2003, 12:30 PM
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Why o why when excel tries to be clever does it *always* f**k things up!!!!

Im importing some CSV values which contain credit card numbers and it always brings them in as xxxxE+15, if I try to change them to numbers then they round up, text leaves them in the same format (E+15). I thought it maybe because they are no double quotes around each column in the CSV file so I changed that but it still does it!!!

Been on this an hour and it should be a 1 minute job, aaaarrrgh, can anyone help me save my sanity????

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Gary
Old 10 February 2003, 12:46 PM
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ok, sorted it now, saved it as .txt then when opening it brings up the import wizard which lets you define the column types.

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Gary, use the text import wizard instead and set the column data format to text. This should sort it.
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Doh ! Beat me to it
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Dunk,

Thx anyway mate, the chair was nearly going across the room, at least Ive learnt something today!

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