numbers and text in Excel to read as text keeping the leading zer.
 

I am trying to open a CSV file, one column is String but contains numerics
with leading Zero (ex. "00123456"). When I open it in Excel it looses the
leading Zeros, how can I keep it ON. I tried to pass the apostrophie ' , but
this did not help my problem as it still shows in the cell untill I Edit the
cell and re-enter it.

Thank you
Raouf

I don't know on the actual importation. But, you could
easily:

A B C
1 Number 00 =B2 & A1

Drag down Row C.
Then Select all row C, then copy, paste special, values.
Done.

-----Original Message-----
I am trying to open a CSV file, one column is String but
contains numerics
with leading Zero (ex. "00123456"). When I open it in
Excel it looses the
leading Zeros, how can I keep it ON. I tried to pass the
apostrophie ' , but
this did not help my problem as it still shows in the
cell untill I Edit the
cell and re-enter it.

Thank you
Raouf

.

Raname it to txt and open it with the text import wizard, click next twice
and in step 3 under column data format select text for this particular column

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Ralph" wrote:

I am trying to open a CSV file, one column is String but contains numerics
with leading Zero (ex. "00123456"). When I open it in Excel it looses the
leading Zeros, how can I keep it ON. I tried to pass the apostrophie ' , but
this did not help my problem as it still shows in the cell untill I Edit the
cell and re-enter it.

Thank you
Raouf