Importing from a Notepad file

[cnelson]

I want to import data from a comma separated Notepad file. When I import into Excel I find that the leading zeroes are dropped and I don't want this to happen. I have some fields that should be "000" not "0".

Is there a way to import without losing all these zeroes?

 

[Gord Dibben]

When youi Import or open a *.txt file the Text Wiizard will pop up and
in Step 3 under Column Data Format you can select Text.

Leading zeros will be held.


Gord



On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 12:07:53 -0800 (PST),

 

[Gord Dibben]

You did say a comma separated file which is most likely *.csv

Change the csv extension to txt then import or open directly in Excel.


Gord

 

[Carl Nelson]

You did say a comma separated file which is most likely *.csv

Change the csv extension to txt then import or open directly in Excel.

Gord

It worked! I didn't realize that I had to change every column to TEXT.

Thanks