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January 5th, 2010, 09:11 PM
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Help Formating Numbers 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 doesn’t 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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January 6th, 2010, 02:41 AM
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Help Formating Numbers to Text
Dave Peterson pointed out the problem earlier, Excel will convert text that
looks like a date into a date number. As Dave pointed out the text in say Notepad will look like the following: 05/14/08,5280-3-01 05/14/08,5280-3-01 05/14/08,5280-3-01 05/14/08,5280-3-01 05/14/08,5280-3-01 05/14/08,5280-3-01 05/14/08,1030-0-01 05/14/08,1030-0-01 05/14/08,2101-0-01 05/14/08,2101-0-01 the trick is to open the file in Notepad and copy the data into Excel. The data will be entered in one column. Select the data Choose Data, Text to Columns Choose the Delimited Option Click the Comma check box Click Next Select the Account Number column (click the column Heading) In the Data Column Format click the Text radio button Click the Finish button Be careful that no data is overwritten. HTH Peter "klafert" wrote: 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 doesn’t 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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