Re: cf to excel formatting problem

2001-10-29 Thread Eric Dawson
thinking aloud. 1) export / import as a text field 2) single quote at the front of the field How are you importing / exporting? Eric Dawson From: Nathan Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: cf to excel formatting problem D

Re: cf to excel formatting problem

2001-10-29 Thread Tony Schreiber
If you open the file directly into excel, this happens. (I deal with a lot of UPC's with leading zeros). However, if you open excel, then import text file, you have the opportunity to tell it how to treat each column (selecting text for your zip column) and everything is then cool. All else fails

cf to excel formatting problem

2001-10-29 Thread Nathan Shaw
I am exporting some data to Excel and one of the fields is zip code. Excel is stripping all leading 0's (zeros) off of the zip codes. I need it to leave the zip code alone, i.e. treat it as text instead of a number. Any ideas anyone? So far, I have tried: 1) Using an obscure ASCII char in front o