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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