On 20/09/2017 13:18, Michael Madigan wrote:
I thought I'd pass this tip along. If you have large text fields with numeric
values, like insurance policy numbers or UPC Codes, you have to format the
cell with custom type ############### or similar, otherwise the CSV file gets
scientific notation values, even if the cell is of type text.
Hope this saves someone some time.
Yes, been bitten by this with EAN13 barcodes. Excel "helping" you with
scientific notation. I usually highlight the column and if you bring
up the format cells dialog (Control-1 shortcut) then click on number and
change the decimals to 0 and click ok.
Peter
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