Noelson Duarte wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm linking a fixed lenght txt file, without string delimiters, to a
> spreadsheet by macro. In one column exist text and numbers, so I'm using the
> Standard type. All it is ok, except when a field start with = character. In
> this case, diferent kinds of errors are displayed into cells (eg: Error
> 510).
> 
> Is there a way, other than setting the type to String, to avoid this?

I'm not a Calc expert but I assume that a cell starting with a "=" is
automatically interpreted as a cell containing a formula. So I think
that it's necessary to tell it that the cell actually contains a string.

Ciao,
Mathias

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